Alderth Castle
Highark [capital city], Raeo [planet], Aurum [star system]
05 June; 13:49:02 Hours
The massive throne room doors swung open, and a thunderous boom erupted before the sharp creak that followed as Haelex Qrow, the younger sister of Dax, stormed into the chambers. Her tattered blue cape that hung from her right shoulder flowed behind her, her silver armored boots clumped off the marble floor beneath the royal blue carpet that lined the center of the throne room, and her eyes glowed bright blue as they locked onto her father who stood just to the left of his throne.
She stopped before the first step of the elevated platform, threw her arms up to her sides, and yelled, “<Enough! This is enough! She has betrayed us and now she taunts us! I would not be surprised if she shares a bed with hi—”
“<Silence!>” Laes roared while his back still remained to his daughter.
“<B-but father!>”
“<Silence.>”
“<For-forgive me,>” Haelex softly said as she bowed her head.
Laes rubbed the bridge of his nose, let out a sigh, and then slowly turned to his daughter. “<I am very well aware of what you want…>”
“<Please, father!>”
“<… but you cannot have it.>”
Haelex’s eyes sunk as she began to pant, but then she screamed, “<I deserve to be Archangel! Not some traitor who’s abandoned her family and crown! I deserve it! ME!>”
“<She’s a Qrow! She is MY firstborn! She is THE heiress of crown-and-throne!>” he roared as his eyes now glowed bright blue and an aura of Shine misted off of him. “<I will not toss her to the side as you wish! Wendale would be seen as wounded and prime for resistance! I will not allow it!>”
Haelex’s bottom lip quivered as she listened to her father. Her fists clenched so tightly that the Dreostum, an alloy exclusively from the planet Drastius, of her silver gauntlets ground together which left out a sharp scratching noise. She refused to break eye contact with Laes as he stood above her with a presence that seemed to hold power over everyone and everything in the throne room; like chains that wrapped around their existence and exerted his will.
The moment of intensity appeared to linger for an eternity until Laes turned and walked over to the throne where he took his seat. “<Now listen to me carefully,” Haelex’s eyes fluttered as a live-feed, three-dimensional hologram of Waelum materialized beside her while her father said, “You will be attaching to Waelum’s crusade, though with an added assignment.>”
“<My King,>” Waelum said as he bowed his head.
“<Added assignment?>” Haelex quipped.
“<Yes,” Laes growled before he explained, “you will be sent to retrieve your sister and return her home, while Waelum eliminates Beelezika.>”
“<I am not her keeper!>” Haelex yelled. “<I can just as easily eliminate Beelezika as Waelum, father!>”
Waelum let out a short chuckle as he glanced at Haelex after hearing her, but Laes snapped, “<You are to retrieve your sister - Not play Archangel! Do you understand?>”
At first, Haelex didn’t respond to her father. She instead glared at him with her eyes remaining intense blue until her mother, Yael came walking up behind and past her. Haelex quickly turned her attention to her as Yael said softly, “<Lei’lah must come home; she’s lost, Tae’shi; she has been corrupted by that monster and needs to bathe in the light of Aela.>”
“<But mother!>”
“<No, Tae’shi! You are her sister! You must make sure that she finds her way as she would be bound to do for you!>”
Haelex’s lip quivered. “<She betrayed us… she spills blood for him!>”
“<You will do as you are ordered!>” Laes barked, as Yael took her place beside him and fought back against tears.
“<My King,” Waelum interjected the tension, “it will be done - You have my word.>”
“<Good,>” Laes said, and Waelum’s hologram dissolved.
“<Tae’shi, please,>” Yael pleaded.
There then fell a silence over the throne room as Haelex looked at her parents, gritted her teeth but then bowed her head as she reluctantly accepted, “<Very well,>” and she began to storm off.
“<It would be a shame if your sister was to extinguish in the presence of Beelezika…>” Laes said and Haelex stopped several feet from the doors.
“<Laes, don’t say such things!>” Yael quickly snapped at her husband.
Slowly, Haelex looked over her shoulder and back at her father who went on, “<… If something so tragic were to befall Wendale, we would mourn our Archangel and Princess BUT a new Archangel and heiress would need be ascended.>”
Again, Yael yelped, “Laes!”
“<Tragic events happen every day,” he explained as he looked up to her, “and I will not allow us to be blind to the possibilities.>”
Just as slowly as Haelex looked back to her father, she now looked away. She remained before the threshold for a moment, her eyes dimmed back to their natural light blue and an almost unnoticeable smirk crawled free from her fading anger. Haelex could hear her parents beginning to argue amongst one another and proceeded to walk out with the two Sabers who stood guard closing the massive doors behind her.