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22 : Queen Fox

The ship that Larna and the others escaped on is forced into making a crash landing on some forest-covered planet. The crash kills Rhonda, deactivates Liam and leaves Larna unconscious. Christen is the only one to survive the crash. As she staggers clear of the wreck a net is thrown over her and she is dragged away by several soldiers on horse back.

The flaming wreck of the ship was seen flashing through the sky by a troop of soldiers, who come to investigate the crash site. They have never seen anything like this space ship, and are even more surprised when they see Larna. According to their legend, the Queen of this land, a stunning woman with fiery hair and a temper to match disappeared under strange circumstances when the evil tribes from the North were invading the land. Larna is the spitting image of this missing Queen, so the soldiers take her back to the castle, claiming that their ruler has returned.

Larna, who is suffering from amnesia, thanks to the heavy knock to the head during the crash landing, is washed away by the emotion of the castle when they see that a woman, fitting the description of their long lost Queen has returned. The King has just died, and as there was no other ruler, the people instantly take to Larna as the new leader of their people. Larna faces all the challenges of a woman with no memory, trying to come to terms with a life that was never hers to begin with.

Then things take a turn for the worse. Christen was captured by soldiers from a Northern Province. They took her back to their fortress command centre where the Duke in charge of the Military rule Province, tortures her for information. Christen does not know anything of course, so she is brainwashed into becoming a serving girl in the fortress dungeon. The Duke then hears the rumour about the return of the Queen of the Southern Province. Knowing this to be nonsense, because he saw the real Queen die in his dungeon five years earlier, he wants to find out more. He starts another war, intent of invading the land for good this time. Larna is now faced with having to rally the troops once again.

Not long into the war, a raiding gang from the North storms the castle and kidnaps Larna. Larna is taken deep into the Northern Province, in chains, so that she may be brought up in front of the Duke as the prize treasure of the raid. Larna faces a brutal torture at the hands of this Duke and his wicked vices, until she receives a blow to the head, restoring her old memory and her old abilities. When she returns to herself and shows the guards a thing or too about beating a prisoner, the Duke decides to take her on a tour of the castle, showing her his collection of wax-works…which are actual dead people coated in wax. The Queen of the Southern Province is just like Larna. Larna meets Christen in the dungeon. She does not remember anything about her former self. With the help of some of the other prisoners in the castle Larna manages to break out, taking Christen with her. She faces being hunted through the forests of the Northern Province, before making it safely back into the Southern Province.

Larna uses her Queen status to form another army, this time she stands at the head. The battle ensues, leaving Larna with a big choice to make at the end of it. Does she stay on this planet as a Queen, or use the dimension computer from the downed space ship to send her back to Earth so she can return to her waiting partner and become plain and simple Larna Fox again.

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