Tales of the queen chapter 6

The bullets flew around the courtyard. Some were reduced to ashes by the fireballs coming towards them.
"Is it good to be back Lady April?" Hisoka shouted over the sound of gunfire.
"I've never been met with so much love!" She said happily, yet sarcastically as she threw the fireball towards the guards shooting. She looked back at her daughter who was pacing.
"Off with their heads...Off with their heads? Yes! Off with their heads!!" Rita mumbled.
"Uh..Rita? Shouldn't you spend some quality time with your mother?" Hisoka stopped Rita's pacing.
"Oh..Yeah I should do that sometime.." Rita looked a little zoned out.
"What should I do with the guard leaders?" He whispered.
"Have them executed, and replaced within the day." Rita ordered.
"And if they beg for their lives and swear allegiance to the queen and her country?"
"If they are saying that out of fear then kill them, we don't need a scared dog lying around the castle. If they are saying that out of truth, which I highly doubt will happen and they believe fully in my country then spare their lives." Hisoka glanced about.
"How am I to tell?"
"Don't ask me Hisoka, you're good at these things." Rita walked off towards her mother and they both headed inside the castle.
"So Rita..." April smiled.
"Don't talk to me until these soldiers are dead mother, I don't want you to change my mind."
Rita and April waited for a few hours, doing their own things. They ate lunch without a word. Rita walked down the hall silently when it was time for the execution. There was a small size room, 3 guns for the three men each with one bullet. "H-Hisoka shoot them now." Rita was shaking, she had always had trouble with executions. It reminded her of the past, how she could've died and what she had done to save herself. Hisoka grabbed the gun and pointed it at one of the men, he looked to be older than the rest, possibly mid forties, and
"Don't you dare shoot." April muttered, her face taking on a serious look. Hisoka continued to hold the gun to the mans face.
"Hisoka, I'm not sure if I made myself clear but put the damn gun down." He didn't drop his weapon and kept his gaze on Rita's face. April had had enough. She ran behind Hisoka and attacked him. She grabbed the gun in her hands.
"Rita go to your room. Now." Rita shook her head.
"Really mother? You think YOU of all people have that power over me? To tell me to go to my room like I'm somehow subservient to you?"
"Rita, you won't want to see this. I'm serious."
"I do and I shall stay." April knew Rita was just angry, and what she was about to do would not be comfortable for her.
"If you say so." She mumbled, picking up the gun and making sure it was loaded. She walked over to the older looking soldier. "You remember me hun?" She asked looking down on him.
"How could I forget the promiscuous Madame April." April responded to this by kicking him in the face.
"Now I bet you remember the time I would've taken that as a compliment. I was young and naive, I remember you used to be so kind to me..but now you greet me with guns? Silly boy~ Now though, instead of being young and naive I'm pointing a gun at your face. Wouldn't it help if you were the same old nice guy you were?"
"A-pril"
"Haha but you're not." She said shooting him.
April was right, Rita did not want to have seen that.