A/N: Hey This fan fiction will be written by me and my friend as we both love this series so there are two characters that are like an exaggerated us. So apart from those two characters the rest aren't ours. Hope you enjoy
Maeko POV
"Shadow" I shouted as my friend slow walked into the stable. "If you don't hurry I'm going off without you." I threated as I climbed up onto my horse and held the reins firmly in my hands. She just yawned and waved her hand at me.
"You always say that but never do." I frowned at her and waited for her to get on her own horse before kicking my horse gently in the stomach to get it walking.
We walked across the grounds but I easily got bored.
"Why don't we race?" I suggested. I looked at her and she was smiling. And smiled back and nodded. "On my mark" I paused and kicked my horse to it would go off at full run whilst shouting "GO" behind me.
When I reached the edge of the forest I stopped and turned to see Shadow catching up. I smirked and went into the forest. I kept looking over my shoulder to see how far behind she was. That's when I nearly fell of my horse. It balanced on its hind legs and kicked its front two like trying back away from something. I had to snap my head around and hold on tighter to the reins so I didn't fall off the saddle. Shadow stopped beside me as my horse went back to standing normal.
"Maeko, you okay?"
"Yeah." I managed to say "Something just spooked him." I said as I got off and rubbed his mane and nose softly. I looked around and to see what did happen but I noticed that I had no clue where I was.
"Shadow, you recognise this place?" she looked around as well and shook her head. "Then let's get out of here. And fast." I grasped the reins and pulled my horse back to the way we had come but stopped. I head something whiz past my head and fast movement in the corner of my eye. I heard a gasp and looked around. Where I had been an arrow stuck out of a tree, the space around it swirling with bleak, cold air. We shared a shocked look then took off running.
I don't know where we went, or how far we went in, but soon my breath was ragged and I was starting to get tired. I heard a grunting and turned to see my best friend fall to the ground. I ran up to her.
"Shadow get up, please." I looked around frantic and pulled her to her feet, but as I turned my breath caught in my throat as I stared at the boy standing in front of me, bow held loosely in his hand. His graceful figure leaned against the bark of the tree whilst a smirk danced across his face. He crossed his arms and looked at us up and down lingering at our chests.
"Hello there, ladies." He bowed his head slightly and met my gaze straight on. "You have to come with me now. The queen would be very disappointed if you don't follow me."
Now I know that I've never known my parents but I can guess that you're not supposed to go god knows where with a stranger that tried to shoot you whilst you are lost in the forest. That's why I started to back away holding Shadow's hand tightly in mine but as we took a step back he took a step forward. I turned to run but I couldn't, my feet had been frozen in place and no matter how much I tried to move them.
"Now now ladies. Please don't try to run away from me. I don't want to make things more difficult than they already are." He walked behind us, a rope spearing slowly in his hand. I heard a gasp from Shadow as he bound her wrists together and when he turned to do mine I found out why. The rope was ice cold. Not freezer cold, pure ice. The rope burned my wrists as I let out a silent scream.
~XxX~
We had been on the back of his horse for a while, slowly making our way through the forest. Shadow had fainted earlier. I'm glade that happened really, the ropes were so painful that I gave up fighting. There wasn't any talking. It was eerily quiet. The only noises that I could here was the rustle of leaves and plants.
"Here we are ladies," he announced as we stopped in front of two trees which created an arch. "Through this awaits our future, your destiny." He laughed slightly. "And properly your nightmare." He slid of the horse and threw Shadow over his shoulder. "Welcome to Tir Na Nog" he smiled and stepped through the arch. I watched in amazement as he disappeared. But I couldn't stop what happened next, I followed him.
~XxX~
Tir Na Nog was beautiful. Ice covered every surface reflecting the light making it dance in the air. Everywhere you could see it all shined with the same ice white/blue. Before I could marvel at the scene anymore as Rowan (we had learned his name after he got us on the horse) pushed my toward the castle that was slowly coming into view as we walked towards it.
"Wh...where are we?" I stuttered. Because truthfully, if a place like this existed on earth then there would have been pictures. But my only reply was a smirk as he pushed me in the shoulder harder.
Eventually we ended up in a giant hall with what I could only describe as inhuman creatures and glare or sneer at us with bared teeth. I was a little bit scared. We stopped inform of the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, her features where inhuman, her hair the blackest I ever seen and a power radiated from here. Also a very cold air did as well. I was pushed to my knees as Shadow was just dropped to the floor beside me like a rag doll. She stirred and went to rub her head but couldn't as her hands were still bound behind her back. When she realised this so looked around horrified then looked at me and managed to make it to her knees.
"You have done good work, Rowan." She waved him off with one hand and he bowed slightly and retreated to the side of the room. I looked up at her then.
"Why are we here? We didn't do anything wrong, we were just riding our horses and got lost in the forest. I don't understand" She only smirked and looked at me. I wanted to move, to look away from her gaze but I knew that if I did I would regret it so I kept hold of her stare.
"For now you two don't need to know. Rowan, show them to the cells." She turned are head. A sign that she had dismissed us. Rowan grasped both of our arms and forced us down long corridors until we reached a large room, all four walls covered in cells with one simple bed in the corner. From where I was standing the floor looked more comfortable. I just pushed into the closest one and heard it lock behind me. The ropes had disappeared and all that was remaining was a small pile off grass. I turned to see where Shadow had gone. Rowan had pulled her close. Her head was turned and it looked like tears threated to spill over. He was smirking and whispering things into her ear but it was so low I couldn't hear what was being said. His hand slowly crept up her body as Rowans intentions where to grope her.
A boy with long silver hair pulled into a pony tail walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Rowan," he began. "Don't do this. It's no fun when they are too easy." He glanced at me and then looked at Shadow. Rowan Ts'd and let go of shadow and stalked out the room. The silver haired boy pushed Shadow into her cell forcefully but not harsh, and locked it behind her. Shadow wiped her eyes and looked at the floor. The boy was half way between our cells and the door when she said
"Thank you." He seemed to smirk to himself and he walked out, closing the door behind us, shrouding us in darkness alone.
A/N: So it was like set into the future but for the purpose of this story we decided that rowan and sage don't die from events before. Please review and tell us what you think. The second chapter should be up after the weekend. (My friend is writing that one so our writing styles can be a little bit different and I think we will be swapping who's writing on each chapter too)