Ascension of the Monster Queen

"You're not leaving no matter what I say, are you?" He asked.

"No, I am not, you are sort of my only hope right about now, you can say I am in quite a desperation situation, I am not leaving no matter what," She responded and he exhaled deeply before looking at her th smiled.

"I got that, damn it, you are persistt, what's your name?" He asked.

"My name is Nessa," She responded.

"On, well that's nice, my name is Maz, it means light here, nice to meet you," He said.

"Nice to meet you as well, look, I'm sorry for causing you trouble, but I don't have another option right now, I really do need to talk to the royals or you can tell me about them a little," She said as she walked alongside him with Akio.

"I see, well, I'll tell you a little bit, but I have to work, so you'll have to wait; also, what's his name?" He asked, his gaze fixed on Akio.

"That's Akio," She responded and Maz smiled.

"He's cute, pets like him is nice to have," He said as she sniffed the air and caught the sct of good food, and both of them turned to a stall selling good food, and Maz lowered his head while clutching his pocket, and that's wh she realized he didn't have any money.

"Come on," She said as she grabbed his arm and led him to the stall where she bought all of them food, and he left staring at her as they wt to the bch by the side of the stall and sat down th she gave Akio his share.

"What are you waiting for?" Nessa asked and Maz looked at her th she smiled.

"It's fine, go ahead and eat," She said th he smiled and they began eating their food, which tasted delicious.

After they finished eating, they got up and started walking down the street heading to Maz's workplace, where Maz looked at Nessa and th sighed.

"Thank you," He said.

"You're welcome," She replied wh she ran into someone carrying a basket of fruits on her head, which had fall to the g.

"I am sorry," Nessa said as she and the girl bt down and picked up the fruits, which the girl th collected and placed back into the basket.

"It's okay," She replied and Nessa smiled.

"Are you sure you're all right?" Maz asked the blonde girl, who nodded and walked away wh Akio touched Nessa on her feet and she looked at him, th he pointed at the girl and Nessa looked at her and saw chains a her feet, and Nessa's eyes wided wh Maz looked at her.

"What is it?" He asked, th she pointed to the girl, and his eyes shook as he noticed the chains.

"She is a slave," He said, and Nessa's hand shivered as she felt sorry for the girl.

"Slave, huh?" She said and Akio looked at her as she lowered her head.

"Yeah, they are people who are bought and sold, some of their owners treat them like they have no value, they are treated and used like livestock their tire lives, this is a bloody messed up world and some of us can't do anything about it," He responded, and Nessa swallowed.

Wh the girl caught them looking, she fixed her long dress, which was dirty and had a split by its side, but she tripped and everything she was carrying fell to the g with her.

"Miss," Nessa said as she rushed up to the girl, who was about to flee in shame because Nessa had se her chains wh Nessa grabbed her hand and the girl looked at her with trembling eyes that wanted to be free.

"One minute," Nessa said as her eyes glowed red, and the slave girl's eyes trembled at the sight, th Nessa placed her hand on the chain, which shattered, causing the slave girl to gasp th she stood up and looked at her feet.

"Walk freely, you are beautiful, don't let others walk on you, you can't just give up, no matter what, you have to fight for true freedom," Nessa said as Maz smiled th sighed as they heard murmuring from the people a them and most of them were just talking from fear.

"Hey, this is really bad, no matter what we are not supposed to do this, we could get into very big trouble," Maz said, grabbing Nessa's arm and she looked at him.

"Huh? Why?" she inquired, and he lowered his head, unsure how to respond.

"Attempting to take someone else's slave is a crime, and the slave's owner may charge you," The same guy Nessa ran into earlier, who was also Maz's boss, said as he approached them with a few of his m, and everyone prest just stared.

"You work for me, do you want to lose your arm, bastard?" As he wrapped his arm a Maz's neck, the man asked.

"Of course not, we're just regular guys with the strgth to carry fruits; how can we possibly break the chain?" Maz asked, and his boss sighed.

"You are correct, you are poor and useless; you don't ev have ough money to feed yourself, your type of people is nothing but trash, you should lucky you are worthy ough to be a slave, but if you did and couldn't pay back, I would make you a slave as well," The guy responded as Maz's grip on Adora's arm tighted as he nervously smiled, and the guy smirked with his gaze fixed on Nessa.

"Oh, I didn't look closer earlier, but you could ev repay it with her, she is a fine specim, you would fetch a fine price with that body of yours, especially with a salve, the master can do anything, the life of a slave is hard, but you will make a fine tertainmt," The guy said, as Maz gnashed his teeth and Nessa lowered her head as Akio started growling, wanting to kill the man and was about to make a move wh he got a heavy feeling coming from Nessa and he stayed put.