The Royal Quarters

**The Royal Quarters** is the final area Zarah passes through in *Blue's Journey: Quest of Zarah.*

## Area

The Royal Quarters resembles a floor themed around The Queen herself. There is even a playroom filled with torn up dolls. There is also a large dinning room with dolls sitting and waiting for The Queen to attend. Troels roams the area making sure it is kept clean. The Queen resides in her bedroom and wakes upon hearing the noises caused by Zarah.

## Inhabitants

* The Queen
* The Dolls
* Troels

## Solution

The Royal Quarters resembles a floor themed around The Queen herself. There is even a playroom filled with torn up dolls. There is also a large dinning room with dolls sitting and waiting for The Queen to attend. One of the dinning areas is also a library like area. There is a giant metal room with a balcony. In the center of the room is a boiling pot with magma hot lava in the center. Above the pot is a moving conveyer belt that carries giant lets that holds the food to cook.

Zarah wakes up along side other Paws. Blue, Kane, The Protector, and Stellar are sitting next to her. Blue is now a blue dog Paw, Kane is a purple fox Paw, and Stellar is a magenta wolf paw. The Protector is a purple bunny paw. She is surrounded by other paws that are sitting next to her.

**Zarah**: Where...where are we....?

**Blue**: "We're in a giant net on a moving conveyer belt."

**Zarah**: "What?!"

Zarah looks down and sees a dark abyss below them.

**Zarah**: "This is bad! We got to get out of here!"

**Blue**: "Look at us! We're...Paws! Don't you think we tried something while you were knocked out?!"

**Kane**: "Blue, calm down!"

**Blue**: "I-...fine!"

**Stellar**: "Hey...does anyone smell smoke?!"

**Blue**: "Smoke?! That means fire!"

The Kids all enter a giant room filled with a large pit of molten lava. It is surrounded by a balcony. The Queen and Troels are seen standing next to it. The Queen has white long silver like hair. She is the same height as The Protector, being a little taller than Zarah. She has a lighter peach skin tone, similar to The Protector. She wears a white shirt with purple spiked stripes. She wears a golden colored dress with red accents. She has a red bow wrapped around her waist acting as a belt for the skirt part of her dress. She wears a golden crown with purple and red gems. She wears long red opera gloves and purple mary jane shoes with red socks.

**Zarah**: "Troels?!"

**Kane**: "We're gonna be cooked alive!"

An army of hungry Animals that are dressed in fancy clothes barge into the room and pound the balcony for The Paws to be cooked and served.

**Blue**: "They're planning to eat us! Zarah's right! We gotta get out of here!"

**Zarah**: "I told you! And I thought I killed ALL of them!"

**Stellar**: "What do we do?!"

**Kane**: "Climb out of the net and towards the vent!"

The Paws begin to climb out of the net and walk across the moving conveyer belt. The Queen, Animals, and Troels notice them.

**Zarah**: "Come on! Hurry!"

**The Queen**: "Huh?! Hey! What the heck are THEY doing?!"

**Troels**: "Stop! Stop trying to escape! I didn't turn you into Paws for nothing!"

The Animals attempt to stack themselves to get to the escaping Paws.

**The Queen**: "Knock down the conveyer belt if you have to! Get those Paws off of there and into the pit!"

Zarah and Blue force open a vent and most of The Paws make it through.

**Zarah**: "Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!"

Zarah crawls in as The Animals make it up and grab a few paws and eat them. The Animals slip and fall into the pit of lava and get burnt alive.

**The Queen**: "NO! Morons! Troels, go get them!"

**Troels**: "Yes, ma'am!"

Troels runs out of the room and The Queen follows him. Zarah leads the army of Paws through the dark vents. They hear the marching of giant Animals thumping beneath them, looking for them.

**Kane**: "There's got to be an escape hatch somewhere!"

**Stellar**: "Where?! They're all after us! They probably shut off all the exits!"

The kids break out of the vents and find themselves in The Queen's library. The Queen is reading a book with a large amounts of her dolls sitting next to her. The Dolls are lined up on a dinning table. The Dolls are child sized baby dolls. Their structure is build as if a child has been stuffed inside of said doll. The dolls are made with soft plushie material, Despite this, they have human like eyes, mouths, hands, and feet. Around them are rips and tears that show bloody innards. Most of them are slumped over, seemingly dead.

**The Queen**: "Hmph! Screw this book! I'll check on Troels! He better have found them by now! Stay here, Dollies!"

The Queen walks away out of the room. The Paws land near the dolls. The Dolls all start to twitch uncontrollably and look towards Zarah and her army of Paws.

**Zaah**: "Don't tell me these things are alive to?!"

**Stellar**: "Uh...hello?"

The Dolls frantically stand up and begin attacking The Paws. The Paws exchange looks and begin to fight back against the army of Dolls. The Protector leads Blue, Kane, Stellar, and Zarah through the fights.

**Zarah**: "The paws...Wait, Protector! What about the other Paws?! They're children like us!"

**The Protector**: "They'll...they'll be okay...I promise."

Plenty of The Paws and Dolls are violently ripped apart during the fight. The Protector leads them into the hallway.

**Blue**: "Which way do we go?!"

**Kane**: "That way!"

The way Kane chose was being roamed by The Animals.

**Blue**: "No! Not that way! The other way!"

**Zarah**: "What about the other Paws? I don't wanna leave them behind!"

**The Protector**: "I know you don't, but we don't have time!"

4 of The Dolls escape the fight to focus on Blue, Kane, Stellar, and Zarah. They decide to run down the hallway Blue chose. The 4 dolls chase them until The Paws tackle them to the wall. The Paws pin them to the wall and suddenly look at The Dolls' arms. They notice child flesh pouring out. The Paws let them go. The Dolls tilt their heads in confusion until The Paws point at themselves and back at them. One of the dolls think of the things Zarah said.

**Paw Zarah's Voice**: "They're children like us!"

The Dolls looks at their hands and suddenly balls them in anger. The Dolls and Paws turn their heads as they see black tentacles begin to rise from the ground. One of them grabs onto Stellar. The Queen's voice is head.

**The Queen**: "Where are you going, little one?!"

The Queen crashes through the floorboards levitating using darkness manipulation. The black tentacles seem to come out of her back. Troels hears this and comes rushing down the corner and finds the whole scene.

**Troels**: "Holy mama!"

**Zarah**: "You must be The Queen!"

**The Queen**: "Certainly! What are you doing here?! Come back to The Boiler Room! It's time for the ceremony. Paws like you shouldn't still be breathing right now"

The Queen's Dolls emerge from behind Zarah, Blue, Kane, and Stellar. Troels stands next to The Queen.

**Troels**: "Its over, Zarah!"

**The Queen**: "Correct! Kill them all!, Dolls! And then dump them into the lava pit!"

The Dolls are then shown holding the hands of The Paws.

**The Queen**: "What are you doing, idiots?! I said take them away, mutants!"

The Dolls and rest of the Paws all approach The Queen. They stare at her in anger. The Queen pulls out her giant sword. Troels hides behind her getting scared.

**The Queen**: "Fine then! I'll call The Knights instead!"

The Knights show up dragging the corpses of The Animals. The Knights flip their masks to show rotting corpses of children. The Animals' bodies starts to become bloated and pop out Paws covered in their flesh, killing them.

**The Queen**: "Stop! Enough! I'm your ruler! I created you! Look at how small you are! How worthless you are! You are nothing but small pathetic children in disguise!"

**The Dolls**: "We were children and you took us away from our lives!"

**The Paws**: "We will tolerate this suffering no more."

**Pig Paw**: "Rip her into pieces!"

Suddenly, thousands of Ravaged Paws break through the walls and tear down the castle. They all face The Queen, now aware of what they've become. The Queen then screams at the top of her lungs and send a giant shockwave down their ears to make them go deaf.

**Fox Paw**: "It doesn't work this time..."

**Red Doll**: "I had a brother I never saw again."

**Zarah**: "What is happening...?!"

**Blue**: "Zarah, now's our chance!"

**The Protector**: "This is what they've been waiting for. Zarah! Guys, come on! While they buy us time!"

One of The Knight faces Zarah and points to an exit. Zarah and her friends leave the area and get away as The Dolls and Paws approach The Queen.

**The Queen**: "GET BACK!!! I AM YOUR MASTER!!!"

She cuts a few of them with her sword. One of the Ravaged Paws lunge forward bites into The Queen's arm. Another one jumps at her leg. More of them bite and claw into her skin. Troels is able to run away as they focus on The Queen.

**The Queen**: "No! Get off! Get off me! Troels! Come back and help me! Where are you going?!"

**Troels**: "AFTER THEM!!!"

Troels chases Blue, Zarah, Stellar, Kane, and The Protector into the room with The Machine. Troels arrives too late as they've already transformed back.

**Blue**: "Yes! It worked!"

**Kane**: "Yeah...heh..."

**Zarah:** "All we gotta do is get out of here."

Troels fires a shot from a gun, but misses.

**Blue**: "Woah!"

**Troels**: "If you refused to be eaten! I'll kill you myself!"

Troels fires a shot at Blue's arm. Blue is hit on the shoulder.

**Blue**: "AH!"

**Stellar**: "Blue, are you okay?!"

Zarah, seeing Blue getting shot, sets off her acid and she fires it at Troels' hand, burning it badly. Troels drops to the floor and grips his hand in pain. The entire castle starts to shake and a giant black tentacle sticks through the walls to grab Zarah, Blue, Kane, Stellar, Protector, and Troels. They get pulled out to reveal The Queen is now giant. Troels jumps and sits on her shoulder. The Queen has bit marks and bloody wounds on her arms. The Queen squishes the children harder

**The Queen**: "It's one thing to kill my staff, destroy various parts of my castle, but ruin my entire ceremony! You're all dead meat!"

Troels is shown eating popcorn on her shoulder.

**Troels**: "I'm going to enjoy this! Rip Zarah to pieces!"

**Kane:** "Ugh! OW!!!"

**Stellar**: "OW!!"

**The Protector**: "Hey, Zarah...I'm proud of you for fighting for yourself. I'm sure they're impressed with you."

**Zarah**: "Yeah...Wait, where are the other children right now?!"

The Knights, The Paws and Dolls push the corpses of The Hostages, The Executioner, The Waiter, and The Animals into the boiling hot lava and overload the boiling pot, causing it to erupt and explode. The Knights, The Paws and Dolls look at each other, and hold hands as they know they're about to die. They all look up and say in a child-like distorted glitchy voice.

**Knights, Paws & Dolls**: "FREEDOM!!!"

The Paws, Knights, Dolls, Animals, Hostages, Executioner, Waiter, Spiders are burnt and submerged by the lava. The walls of the castle begin to crumble and get destroyed. The Queen's black tentacle is shown squishing the children, suffocating them.

**The Queen**: "Now, how should I kill you? Choke? Starvation? Stab wounds? Decapitation? Cut into pieces? Poison? Squish? Crush? Twist? Warp and distort? Burn? Electrocution? Drown? Suffocation? Come on, Zarah! Choose how you die! Or I’ll choose myself!"

The Queen then fires a burning hot lava below her feet. She looks down and sees lava flowing from her castle and it collapsing.

**The Queen**: "MY CASTLE?!? NO!!!! WHAT DID YOU DO?!?"

Zarah shoots a ball of acid in The Queen's face.

**The Queen**: "AHHH!!! MY FACE!!! MY FACE!!! AHHHH!!!

She drops the 5 children and they land on top of the collapsing castle. Zarah jumps with her friends to get to a safe spot.

**Blue**: "Yikes! That's going to leave a mark, Queen!"

**Kane**: "Ha! In your face!"

**The Protector**: "We're almost there!"

The Queen spots them and attempts to chase them while getting her feet burned by the lava and stomps past her castle's ruins. However, some of The Paws, Dolls, and Knights jump from the fire to restrain The Queen from leaving the burning castle and force her back down. They bite, stab, and cut her skin to weaken her from getting away. Troels jumps off her shoulder and runs away from the lava flow.

**Troels**: "My...future...its ruined!"

Troels watches as The Queen sinks into the lava screaming. Blue and Kane push a small raft into the ocean and Zarah and Stellar get on. Blue pushes the raft faster and they all jump on. They watch as The Shackles gets overtaken by the lava and destroyed. The Solders are seen getting burnt up. The General flees from The Shackles with Troels.

**Blue**: "Did we...did we win?"

**Zarah**: "Yeah, we're safe now..."

Zarah smiles and gives Blue a hug. Kane wraps a few bandages around Stellar's arms. The kids soon fall asleep on the raft. The Protector looks forward and sees them approaching a forest like area.