I couldn't believe it! Xander just died and Liam just disappeared! Could things get any worse?! Rob was really depressed from Xander's death. Cogsworth went up to Rob and they nuzzle each other lovingly in sorrow. Aurelia without a master to command her, shrunk back into a small gold idol filled with despair and tragedy. Daniel uses elemental powers to generate a grave stone with Xander's name written boldly across it. Despite all the hardship and tragedy, we continued onward to the Fire Kingdom.

The fire kingdom was out of sight due to a tall blazing wall. The wall  was ten metres thick and half a kilometre tall! Behind the walls was the fire kingdom. A set of tall structured buildings with large gapping windows set on fire! Just before we could walk through the palace gates, our path was blocked by a wall of fire. A girl made of fire magically appeared in front of the wall.
"Outsiders are not permitted inside the kingdom without a citizen of the flame kingdom" says the girl.
"If you do not have a citizen from the flame kingdom who approves of you entering, then go back from hence you came" says the girl.
"I approve" says Tia from behind all of us.
"And who may I ask are you?" Asks the girl.
"Tia Cross, rightful queen of the fire kingdom!" Says Tia moving forward from the crowd. The girl gasps and then disappears in a spray of bright orange sparks.

"Where did she go?" Asks Xanala.
"She should probably be back with a whole army" says Tia casually and in a split second, in front of us appear an army of flaming soldiers.
"Called it!" Exclaims Tia and with that, all of us are handcuffed by the soldiers.
"Before you take us in, can you put a flame shield on the rest of these bozos" says Tia. They tap all of us except Tia with a flaming magic wand and we're all turned into flame people just like Tia. We're all lead to the thrown room where a large mass of flame people have gathered. Sitting at the flaming thrown is a woman made up of magma, lava, hot rock and fire! She has a small red gem embedded in her chest. She also had an enormous headdress which resembles curly rams horns as well as goats horns. Her eyes are an evil yellow. The white of her eyes are red, her iris' are yellow and her pupils are pitch black.

An evil smile forms on her face. She makes a gesture by lifting one of her fingers. The soldiers bring Tia closer. They roughly tug her head back. The woman gets up from her thrown and bends over Tia. She eerily says,
"Hello..."
"Sister!" All of us widen our eyes in surprise.
"Oh! Please! Furnessa! Just call me Tia!" Says Tia frustratingly.
"Why have you returned?!" Roars Furnessa.
"We simply need to go through the fire kingdom to get to the forgotten realm!" Says Tia.
"You mean the FORBIDDEN land. The forgotten realm IS forbidden!" Yells Furnessa.
"The order of the griffin have already started overthrowing this rule!" Explains Tia.
"LIES!" Shouts Furnessa.
"It's true! The order of the griffin are preparing for a huge battle. A battle that will affect the whole world including the fire kingdom! If you want your kingdom to be safe, then you'll let us through your kingdom!" Exclaims Tia.
"Is that a threat?" Asks Furnessa calmly.
"No, but it is a warning. I don't want to see this place to end up in ruin, but I can stop it from happening! If you let us through!" Says Tia.
"This is the fire kingdom! This is a place of ruin! And destruction!" Roars Furnessa her eyes lit with anger just like a furnace!
"Is that what you've been telling your people?!" Screams Tia. She breaks her hand cuffs with a massive explosion of fire. She forms a force field around herself so that she can't be touched.
"PEOPLE OF THE FIRE KINGDOM! LISTEN TO ME! YOUR QUEEN IS FILLING YOUR HEADS WITH LIES! I REMEMBER A TIME WHEN THE FIRE KINGDOM WAS A PLACE OF PEACE AND HARMONY! YOUR QUEEN HAS CONFUSED YOUR PEACE WITH RUIN AND DESTRUCTION! FIRE CAN BE ANYTHING! WE ALL KNOW THAT BUT FIRE DOES'NT HAVE TO BE RUIN AND DESTRUCTION! FIRE CAN BE BEAUTY AND LIGHT! PLEASE HELP US AND YOUR KINGDOM WILL ONCE AGAIN BE A PLACE OF BEAUTY AND LIGHT!" Yells Tia before getting rid of the force field. Everyone except Furnessa seem moved by Tia's speech. They yell and scream things like,
"RISE AGAINST QUEEN FURNESSA!"
"PEACE!"
"BEAUTY AND LIGHT!"
"LONG LIVE QUEEN TIA!"

Anyway, after the riot, everyone rises against Queen Furnessa, but just before we could leave, we were stopped by two large groups of people.
"Queen Tia! Where are you going?! We need you to rule!" Says one of the citizens.
"I can't rule, I'm going on an adventure" explains Tia.
"Well than what do we do?" Asks one of the citizens.
"There should be no more rulers! We should all live as equals!" Says a female fire person.
"No! We must nominate a ruler or else the kingdom will end up in ruin!" Disagrees a male fire person. The two flame citizens start fighting each other and all the citizens join sides.
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Tia, it's up to you to resolve this conflict,
What do you do?
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