WARNING: This story may contain scenes of sexual reference.
Hannah's P.O.V
It was a beautiful morning and a beautiful way to start a morning in the kingdom of Splazzer City, my home kingdom, what would be a better way to spend your morning? Well to spend it in the kingdom of Splatalot for a start, I've always wished that I could live alongside the defenders of Splatalot, and alongside Kookaburra, he's such a good looking guy, he's not the only one, Gildar is also a very good looking man, but he's really not my type, he's always looking at himself in the mirror and is just too obsessed with himself, but Kook he's different, sure he cares about how he looks, but he doesn't let them take over his life, that it the kind of guy for me.
I was stood at my bedroom window looking through my binoculars to the kingdom of Splatalot, our kingdoms are so far apart that I have to use binoculars to look at them, these were the strongest binoculars ever, I could see for miles, I moved my binoculars to the left slightly to try and find Kook and it wasn't long before I found him, he was stood talking to Thorne, I wasn't trained in lip reading so I couldn't make out what they were saying, I wasn't bothered about Thorne, I was just focussing on Kook, his feathers blowing about in the wind and the sun shining off his beautiful green hair, how I so wish that I could run my hand through that hair, I can't tell my mum and dad about my crush on Kook, they'd go ballistic, so would everyone else around the kingdom as our kingdom Splazzer City and their kingdom Splatalot have been enemies for years and by the way things are it looks like they're going to stay like that for a long time, I'll have to tell mum and dad some day, I can't hide it forever.
After 1 hour of me looking through my binoculars something happened that nearly made my heart skip a beat, Kook looked at me, well…maybe mot directly at me but he was looking in the direction that I was at, I put my binoculars down and went downstairs to where my friends Kerensa, Beth, Jennifer and Faye were.
"Hey guys." I said walking into the room.
"Morning Hannah, what've you been up to this morning, we were expecting you here half and hour ago." said Kerensa.
"Oh, I was just admiring the view from my bedroom window that's all."
"But your room looks out onto the kingdom of Splatalot, in my opinion I'd hate that kind of view."
Even my friends hate the kingdom of Splatalot, it's just me who doesn't, it hasn't always been like this, I did hate them at one time, but that was before I accidently bumped into Kook in the woods one day when I was out with my friends, I didn't know that he was from Splatalot first of all, I found that out later when he said that he had to get back to Splatalot, he was such a friendly guy, he was always coming out with all these jokes or just funny things to say, I guess that's why he's nicknamed 'the joker'.
If I told people about my little crush on Kook what would happen to me or what will happen to them in Splatalot, the people here may start a war against them, at the very least they'll probably throw me out of the kingdom, I guess that I could be alright on my own but where could I go, maybe I'd finally be able to go to Splatalot, they'll probably take pity on a young girl like me. Maybe my friends will understand if I tell them about my crush on Kook.
"Guys, can I just confess something to you?" I said.
"What?"
"You know the kingdom of Splatalot?"
"Yeah."
"And you know about this defender there called Kookaburra?"
"Yeah, what about him?"
"Well how would you guys describe him?"
"Erm…stupid, annoying, irritating, barmy, a freak, murderer because he killed Falcon, god rest his soul."
"No, I'd say that he's the complete opposite of that. I think that he's funny, has a great sense of humour, and could be a great friend…handsome, cute."
"What the hell are you on about?" Beth asked.
"I just think that he's quite good looking and would be a great person to hang out with once you get to know him."
"You don't have a crush on him do you?"
"Well, to tell the honest truth…yes, yes I do."
"Hannah, you do know that our kingdom's are great enemies don't you?"
"Yeah, I know that."
"So what are you crushing on Kook for?"
"It was an accident, that day when we were in the woods, I bumped into him and we got talking, he's actually a really funny and friendly guy once you get to know him."
"How could you do this? You're betraying the kingdom by going out and meeting him."
"I don't see him every day, I've just seen him the once, I guess that it was a bit like love at first sight."
They were taking this much better than I was expecting, maybe that's because it hasn't quite sunk in yet, hopefully for now it will just be between me and my friends, but I just don't feel confident with this, I'm sure that something bad is bound to happen.
I'm not going to take any chances so I've decided that I'm going to run away, that's the best option that I've come up with, I can't tell anyone where I'm going though. I stuffed all my clothes into my suitcase along with my toiletries and makeup, my phone, my mp3 and all these other things that I'm going to be needing or what I want to take with me…hang on, I should at least let someone know where I've gone or tell them why I've run away, so I should leave them a note explaining everything, I got a small piece of paper and pen and started writing.
I was in the middle of writing my note when my bedroom door flew open, three soldiers ran into my room; two of them grabbed my arms while the other grabbed my suitcase.
"Hey, what's going on, what are you doing?" I asked wriggling under the grip of the soldiers.
"I'm sorry Hannah." A familiar voice said from outside, a few seconds later Faye emerged. "I had to tell them." She said.
"But why Faye, I thought that we were friends."
"Friends or not, they still needed to know."
I couldn't believe what was happening, my own friend Faye has betrayed me and told my deepest and darkest secret. How could she?
"Hannah, we apologise for this but we're going to have to tell you to leave the kingdom." Said the soldier to my right.
I could feel the tears building up behind my eyelids, I didn't want to blink and let them fall in case they flooded the room, the soldiers were leading me down the corridor still holding onto my arms when my mum and dad came walking towards us, thank goodness, maybe they'll try and get them to let me stay.
When mum was less that a metre away from me she raised her right hand and slapped me across the face hard, I looked back at her in shock.
"How could you possibly do this to us Hannah?" she said tears streaming down her cheeks.
"But mum…" I started.
"Don't you dare speak to me. I don't wish to lay my eyes upon you again, I'm even ashamed to call you my daughter."
I didn't know what hurt most, my cheek or the rejection from my own mother and father, the soldiers continued to march me straight out of the castle gates and abandon me, but they lead me to the centre of the courtyard and onto a large platform, there was a sea of people surrounding the area, I stood there unsure what was going to happen, I've seen what happens in the films when someone is in this position, they get executed, I looked up at the balcony above me and the king was stood there looking down on me.
"Hannah Limeburn. You stand here before there people to face judgement." The king said to me before addressing the people. "This girl has betrayed us all, she has been speaking to and flirting with the enemy, do you deny this Hannah?"
"No." I replied.
"This kind of behaviour cannot be tolerated, and therefore comes with punishment. Exile!"
Exile, that's not as bad as I thought it was going to be.
"Is there anything that you want to say Hannah before you are thrown out of here for good?" the king asked.
"Yes. There is." I replied forcing my arms free from the soldiers grasp. "You all may think that I'm walking out of here a looser, but I'm not, I'm going to live my life the way that I want to, and I don't give a damn about what you say your highness, no offence, but I love Kookaburra from Splatalot and I'm proud that I do and there's nothing that you can do about it, sure I don't know where I'm going to go from here, but I know that anywhere is going to be better than here."
As soon as I finished talking the people surrounding me started to pelt me with rotten tomatoes, rotten fruit and eggs, before the soldiers grabbed my arms again and dragged me to the gates, they pushed me out with such force that I lost my balance and fell head first into the dirt, before also throwing my suitcase after me, as it hit the ground it burst open sending my belongings flying into the air and scattering them into the dirt, I scooped them up from the dirt and stuffed them back in watching as the gates to Splazzer City closed behind me. Good riddance.
I stood up and brushed myself down before picking my suitcase back up and ventured out into the woods, after I'd been walking for 30 minutes, I looked behind me, I could just see the tops of the turrets of Splazzer City through the tops of the trees, it wasn't long before it was out of sight and I was deep in the heart of the woods.
I continued to walk until the sun started to set, so I put my suitcase down and gathered some wood from around me to make a fire, I went to girl guides for a bit but I left before I learnt how to make a fire, I tried my best by rubbing a couple of sticks together but I had no luck, if only I'd remembered to pack some matches, throwing the sticks to one side I sat there on top of my suitcase and watched as the woods got colder and darker.
There were plenty of noises in the woods that night, and not all of them good, I was also frozen all through the night, when I saw the sun beginning to rise above me I knew that there wasn't really any point to try and get any sleep now, I stood up, my knees weak and my vision blurred and continued with my adventure. I could feel my knees getting weaker as I walked on, I hadn't eaten since yesterday morning, my blood sugar was really low, I didn't know if I could carry on for much longer, after I'd walked less than half a mile I put my suitcase down and rested for a few minutes, it hadn't helped much when I got back up as I was still exhausted from the lack of sleep, I knew that I wasn't going to get far unless I had some sleep, I put my suitcase down again and lay down for a few minutes, I was asleep in seconds.
When I woke up again the woods were dark and there was the same noises around me, I won't be able to get back to sleep now, I picked my suitcase up again and walked deeper and deeper into the woods, jumping at anything that moved, I had been walking for half an hour when things got serious, I could barely see where I was walking and I had no idea what was out here, there were noises surrounding me and I didn't know what was real and what was just my mind playing tricks, it was terrifying.
As things got scarier and scarier I quickly started to pick up speed, soon I was running, I tripped up a number of times on several tree roots and my clothes were all now torn and covered with a mixture of rotten fruit and veg, eggs and mud, I was sure that I was now going in circles, I was sure that I've passed a few familiar trees, I've been walking for so long I should have got out of the woods by now, at one point, I stumbled over a tree stump and scraping my leg over a sharp piece of rock cutting through my trouser leg and deep into the flesh of my lower leg, the pain was agonizing but I kept on running until I could run no further, I dropped my case and collapsed on the ground with pain and exhaustion.
I remained there for the rest of the night when the sun began to rise I could see the exit to the woods, ahead of me was an opening between the trees leading to somewhere, with me legs still weak and my eyes blurry I ran out, anything to get me out of these woods, as I ran closer and closer my legs got weaker and everything around me started to get darker, it was when I finally left the woods and met sunlight when everything went dark.