The Evil Queen

Cortana Lustre came into this world on a fine evening, when the entire land was glowing golden.

Her brother Quixote followed right after her, holding her feet.

She was a beautiful child born of beautiful parents.

From the time she could understand words, her father told her she was the most beautiful girl in the world, and she deserved to be nothing less than a queen of the world.

Her brother was her greatest protector and helper as she grew up.

She knew he loved her the most, and together, they made the most perfect and complete being in the world.

If she is the head, he was the body.

If she was a thought, he was action.

If she was a warrior, he was the sword.

If she was a queen, she was her knight.

If she were a corpse in a coffin, then he would be the garland on her coffin.

That's how inseparable they were.

He never did anything she hated, and all his thoughts were just for her.

Sometimes he was silly, but she knew men had this weird love for weapons and fighting. Like an involuntary reflex of squatting a mosquito biting you.

In all things save for the fighting, her brother listened to her.

He did so when she told him she must be the only one he loves in this world, and he must follow her as her knight wherever she goes.

After all, she deserved nothing but the best.

When young Cortana saw Rykor Drakon for the first time, she fell in love immediately.

After all, he was the most beautiful man she has ever seen, including her ever so handsome brother.

All the girls mooned over her brother, but her brother couldn't hold a candle to Rykor's ethereal beauty.

And the eastern empire…

Their carriages are made in gold, and their dresses are sewn with diamonds and rubies.

Even the walkways of the palace were covered with silk at all times, so the roughness of stones does not affect the softness of the queen's feet.

She dreamed Rykor Drakon would take one look at her, and fall in love with her irrevocably.

He would then divorce that cow Erena Summers, who is nothing but a sickly waif, who held none of her curvy beauty.

Her dreams about the dragon prince did not stop her from exploring the limits of pleasure with her brother.

However, Rykor that stupid man had to go and fall in love with Lydia Winterchild, who is a real child.

She was petite, had brown hair and a long face. Even bedecked in the finest clothing and most valuable jewelry, Lydia could not even be half as beautiful as her, the golden princess.

However, Rykor Drakon had been blind, and he had not seen that.

Thus, he stole another man's fiance.

Beor Hawthorne and Edward Winterchild fought with him to retrieve the girl, but the girl was dead and neither man could get her in the end.

Her father wanted to see Rykor's prowess in the battle, but the falling of Rykor, despite having greater numbers, disappointed her father greatly.

However, the milk is already split.

While Edward had indeed come to retrieve his sister, Beor was in it to conquer more land.

Thus, when it was found that Lydia had perished already, he negotiated with remaining southern countries under the auspices of a great army.

Lustre was given first, as he had a daughter, and she wanted to be queen.

A fight at this point accomplished nothing, since he nominally promised Rykor he would serve drakon country when done, there's no point to do otherwise now. Thus, he agreed to Beor's rule under the condition he marries his daughter.

Thus, Cortana met her second prospective husband Beor.

Despite the name that sounds like a bear, and his manners of a pig, Beor was a handsome man, with ocean blue eyes, raven hair that fell away in beautiful ringlets, and abs to die for.

His body is the best looking ever, and so was his stamina.

While Rykor had the charm of a pretty man, Beor was masculinity personified.

In the night, she found out, his stamina is incredible as well.

As they spent the night together, Cortana found out his stamina quite matched her needs, unlike her brother.

Only, Beor was a similar type of man to herself.

He only knew to take, never knew to give, exactly like Cortana herself.

Since he strayed, so must she, Cortana decided.

Thus her tryst with her brother began once more.

Quixote was quick to push her away when she entered his chambers in the middle of the day to kiss him.

However, the thrill of a tryst got to him as does his ever present brainwashing from his sister.

Thus, he fell into the oh so familiar role of being Cortana's alter ego in all the places she couldn't reach by herself.

Her father turned a blind eye to such happenings. After all, he was a vain man, and he couldn't bear a single stain upon his most perfect achievement to date, the most perfect twins in the world.

Thus, Cortana continued, till the blasted Argon Rushing found out none of her children were borne by the king.

He even found some obscure reference to prove it, something about traits of lineage, which identified the children by hair and eye color.

She wanted to kill him, but he was killed by a plague before she could act.

Cortana was surprised by this sudden blessing, but then she figured it is but commonplace.

After all, she was the darling of this world, how could any obstacles stand in her path ?

The gods must love her as much as everyone loves her.

After all, she is the most beautiful and talented person in the world. The gods themselves must have felt sorry for herself as for having married a husband like Beor.

After the death of Argon Rushing, god knows what wind blew, Beor decided he needed the support of Winterchild family stat.

Thus, despite being a king of a kingdom, he abandoned all the matters of state, and rushed to wintercity to ask for the hand of Edward winterchild's eldest daughter.

Many felt the move was wise, far unlike Beor's usual stupidity.

Afterall, Edward Winterchild is associated with the water kingdom, as well as the mountain kingdom.

In case of conflict, as long as there is assurance of support from the north, none of the southern vassals will dare rebel. It does not matter how stupid Jeremy was.

At the same time, Edward Winterchild felt there is an acute need for investigating the cause of Argon Rushing's death, thus he followed his friend.

Edward Winterchild found it was not plague that killed Argon, but poison, and the poison was fed to him by the hands of the queen.

As he found the clues left by Argon, and eventually, he arrived at the same conclusion as his predecessor.

Unlike his mentor, the late Argon Rushing, Edward gave a warning to the queen, hoping she would run away with her children. After all, the children committed no crimes.

Only, Queen Cortana used this against him. King Beor was hurt in a hunt, and perished on the day Edward sought to inform him of the truth.

In some ways, Beor had always known what Edward felt at that time.

No matter what, Winter king would not suffer a bastard sitting on a throne. Even Cortana knew this much.

Thus, she gathered all the soldiers she could and arrested Edward, killing all the soldiers and servants who arrived with him, save for Sasha.

His other daughter princess Xena ran away in the commotion.

They put on a great farce of forgiving Edward and sending him to the Barrier, hoping to send Raul back.

However, that all went to shit when King Jeremy decided to take King Edward himself.

Sasha fainted on the spot.

Cortana had always hated Sasha, for the girl had something she never possessed in her visage.

An innocence and a gentle strength that irked Cortana no matter how she tried to hide it.

There is something to Sasha winter child, the way she made no mistake no matter how she was goaded, and the way she endured, no matter what humiliation they put her through, the way she never screamed, no matter how strong a knight's blows are.

The quiet dignity of the little girl offended Cortana most.

Thus, when her father decided Sasha would marry her ugly brother, while a new bride would be sought for Jeremy, she gladly accepted.

She took great pleasure in tormenting the little girl about the fact.

While Sasha bore her marriage with dignity, the anticipated new bride turned out to be a nightmare for Cortana.

Sure enough, the Trousseau girls are all sluts, and excelled at seducing men.

As her son slowly span out of her control, so did Cortana's sanity.

After so many twists, she succeeded in killing the Trousseau queen, but her son died along with his bride.

Well, sometimes, queens need to make sacrifices for their nation, and it is with great responsibility she takes the throne of Summerland.

Finally, All's right with the world as the power has come to her hands at last, as it should.