Prince Elliot

Prince Elliot had a vial and horrible brother called Logan, the king of Albion. Considered one of the best rulers until his outbreak, Logan has made little Elliot's life a living hell. With the hero king dead, Logan has been the king… For a time he was righteous and good. But something had happened.

As usual Elliot would get up to Jasper's bickering telling him how life outside is so miserable. But Elliot knew that was false. Raina had shown him the life outside the walls, away from Logan's insulting statue in the garden. It was nice, sometimes even he was happy. She opened his eyes.

Raina…another something that Logan didn't approve.

He remembered when she first came into his life. It was an early morning when the hero king Sparrow was walking in the Old Quarter alleyways when he met a bunch of ruffians bargaining with a couple from the noble court. They were the Idolu family. The only nobles who ever walked outside of Bowerstione's Market and Castle. They hated one thing more than money: Violence against children.

The Old Quarter was full of it. Of course the ruffians had found themselves a spirited young girl who gave them quite a fight. The Nobles were bargaining her release with money, but the bandits had other ideas. The king came barging in, ordering that they let the child go...Elliot was watching from his window...the only outside connection he had after 7h00pm. He remembered watching as his father attack and stylishly killed them off. Elliot and his brother Logan cheered from the window, attracting the attention of Walter and Jasper.

As the fight was over, the king escorted the noble family and the girl to the castle were the nobles parted ways with the young child close by...they were her new adopted family. The King had spoken a lot about the young child and took her under his wing as her parents died trying to save an unwealthy family from bandits...the Idolu family always tried to do some good. They did: they saved Raina.

He remembered when his father introduced his young protégé to his sons.

"Boys, this is Raina. She will stay with us for a long time. Be nice to her."

The gentleman Elliot was, he greeted her with a steady hand. She looked down and shook it. Getting used to the strange greeting that the nobles used. Soon after when she stole food from the kitchens late at night, she went up to her room only to be caught by guards who chased the young girl all around the Castle. Elliot opened his door, yanked her in and closed it before the guards went around the corner. Raina was so relieved she shared her food with the young Prince of Albion. That's when she promised that she'd take a bullet for him. A child's promise didn't mean much back then. But she promised.

Raina was quite the rebel child. At night she would creep outside the Castle just to go see the moon in the gardens...these visits became abundant when the King died. She was a teenager by then. Barely 11. Elliot, becoming her protector against the outside ruffians, she called them, was turning 13. They soon became friends. Years later on Elliot learned that the promise of taking a bullet for someone coming from the Old Quarter was quite a sign of trust. He couldn't believe it! She had made that kind of promise to him? She stayed quiet about it but he knew she was always considering it, keeping it in check.

When Elliot would ask where she was from she'd always say: "Where the Warrior Monks are from!" But that was all she knew from her parents and heritage. But she always knew that her parents loved her and that people weren't who they seemed.

One day, Elliot and Raina were taking their annual rebellious walk in Mispeak but they found a bunch of bandits beating a border collie. Being the animal lover, Raina attacked the two Bandits almost to death with a big stick she found nearby. As one of the bandits dropped his sword she picked it up and ran a rampage while butchering his armour. Elliot had to stop her and they fled with the dog before another patrol would come for them. She named the dog Hero.

Raina loved to sing. Every time she was alone, she'd sing a lullaby that her mother, the noble, used to sing to her when she was younger. It went like this:

Sleep my little brother...as I rock you my dear...my tender...I love you in every way. Be strong for me. Change the world. Go to sleep my brother...we'll be together again when the sun comes back up.

Elliot almost always stayed there and listened to her sing for a while until she'd notice he were around. She'd laugh and move on. Most of the time she'd start signing Down by the Reeds. Elliot loved it when Raina would let lose.

A few years later after the death of the Hero King and the ceremony of Logan, Elliot was awaken by Jasper on the day of the execution of the factory worker and was told that Lady Raina was looking for him in the gardens. Being Raina he knew she wouldn't stay there for long. But Elliot still walked to the gardens to try and find the ever impossible Raina. As he looked for her he knew that new feelings started to surface. Raina had changed his life utterly and completely for the better. He thought he loved her.

Being who he was, a descendant of the stubborn Hero king who never wed after the Queen's death, he never followed his heart and probably wouldn't start then.

Naturally she wasn't there to meet him on the rails. He knew of one other place that Raina always went: the Kitchens.

He saw her give a speech to the domestics of the kitchens about how Logan has been too preoccupied with things to care for his subjects at the moment and that she would personally speak with Prince Elliot given the situation. She numbered most of his qualities and believed he could help them. Something that she wouldn't say to his face.

She said all those things just to find him behind her.

Elliot smiled. She never surfaced her feelings for him either.

Walter was impressed by her brave endeavour. How she took Elliot word for it, she was quite the person. Walter even surprised himself by thinking how Raina was the perfect Queen or Princess for Elliot and for Albion. He called Elliot in for training, after a brief kiss on her cheek Elliot was off.

Raina was surprised by this. The infamous and heart warming Prince Elliot kissed her! Well on the cheek…but that was enough to make her blush. The most eligible bachelor kissed her! She continued her usual rounds around the castle thinking about just that.

When the rebellious crowds showed up on the doors Logan wasn't in the throne room where he usually was but at the doors, his gun pointing at the crowd's leader threatening to kill him. Raina came in and called him off.

"I won't let you kill someone!"

Elliot came running in as Logan pointed his gun towards her. He came between the gun and Raina, his one and only Raina. Logan may have shot Raina but he wouldn't shoot him, his own brother.

"Logan! This has to stop!"

"You don't know what has to be done Elliot!"

"Maybe I don't! But this….this is madness!" He blurred it out. "You're unfit for rule brother. Killing your people. It isn't the way to go."

Logan chuckled. "And you would know how to run a kingdom? You would, would you little brother?"

"Better than this…Where is the old Logan? The one who didn't heavily tax his subjects?"

The crowd chanted. Agreeing at 100% with the king's younger brother.

"Elliot, stand down."Whispered Walter. "Logan can't be reasoned with. You're making it worse."

"I'll give you a taste of rule." Logan voice was of pure insanity as he shot 12people of the crowd. Raina covered her mouth as she saw them die…most looking at her. They were mostly her friends, from the street. She was the only one safe because of Elliot…she was the only one left of her friends because of the brother of the murderer…

"Oh my god…" she whispered as she saw her friends die.

Elliot knew most of the dead. Logan has gone mad…completely.

"Logan! What the hell!"

Logan smiled. An evil grin showed as he directed his pistol to his brother's face.

"You want to be next?" His smile left. He was serious.

This is my Albion… he kept repeating in his head. Logan was damn serious about killing his own brother to keep his kingdom safe from the crawler.

Elliot kept on thinking that Logan couldn't kill him. No matter how far gone mentally he was.

"Why did you do that?"

Logan had to do it…Raina saw his intention. With superhuman quickness Logan pulled the trigger and Raina pushed Elliot out of the way.

Elliot fell but looked up to see Raina frozen. Her face became white…purely. She looked down to her side… blood started to surface on her practical pair of royal pants and vest that Elliot gave her one night. It was now stained red…the surface expanding becoming bigger and bigger.

"NO!" He screamed. Raina was shot, because he wouldn't shut up. He rushed to her side as she fell. She struggled to breathe.

Her hands were now red and started to shake. Elliot couldn't bring himself to think straight… Raina was shot? He couldn't believe it!

Back when they were kids she always said she'd take a bullet for him. She was telling the truth...He started to wonder if she knew it would happen.

Elliot pressed the wound hoping for her life to continue.

"Poor. Baby. Brother." Logan pouted completely emotionless from the fact that he almost killed his brother. He smiled to his brothers weakened state. He kicked him with his boot making Elliot fall over. Logan took out his sword pressed it against his throat. Raina however was strong enough to move. She found the inner strength she was looking for and picked up a shard from the ground, threw it at Logan with an invisible force piercing his suit.

Elliot took the small distraction to push him over as he grabbed Raina and ran to where ever Walter was bringing them.

They stopped running at a shed not far from the castle in Bowerstone Garden. It was the tool shed that the gardeners kept tidy and hidden because of the underground sewers that connected to the resistance. Raina was put down on a table. He clothes stained almost everywhere.

"Rains….please don't die." Elliot pleaded. "Please don't make me the reason why you died… Please."

"Shhhhhhh…" She pressed her fingers against his lips. "You knew...somewhere deep inside that we wouldn't be together because of your brother." She smiled faintly, saving her energy.

"No...I won't let you go!"

At that moment Walter left to go get Jasper in Elliot's room leaving the 2lovers alone.

"You have too...and when you do..." Elliot shook his head in denial. "Hey." She ordered. When she used that tone, anyone had to look at her in awe...she could order anyone with that voice. Even Logan if she wanted to. "And when you do, remember what Logan did to you...what he did for us." She stroked his hair. "Only then will I truly be at peace."

"Raina, I ..." Elliot started.

"Promise me that you won't forget." She looked deep into his eyes...they were more intense than back at the old quarter... when they were gazing up at the Moon...when she was looking for answers...or justification s to others people's means.

"Promise me Eli..." She almost pleaded. Elliot knew that words couldn't satisfy or anything he said wouldn't be what she wanted to hear. He ran his fingers in her curly brown hair that never tangled. He bent really close and kissed her. She reached up to his face and caressed him as she lay there getting her first kiss when she was dying.

All the suddenly she felt much better as Elliot finished the kiss. She was stronger almost. He looked deep into her eyes and said: "I love you. Isn't that promise enough?"

Raina had never heard those words before. She just read them in books. She found it weird that when those words were combined it gave people the impression that they wanted to bare each other's children. Raina didn't want kids but she wanted the second best thing: Waking up to Elliot in the morning. Unsure what she was supposed to do she grabbed his collar and pulled him towards her. She kissed him again.

As she stopped that one she said: "A hell of a moment to tell me hat Eli."

Walter and Jasper then came back with some servants from the kitchen.

"Elliot come with us. Matylda and Jane will take Raina to the resistance."

"No." Elliot mumbled. The last thing he wanted was to be away from Raina...he would never leave her. He held in his tears with an inhuman strength.

"Elliot, you have to." He shook his head, always in denial. He held her hand...it was becoming colder and colder.

"Eli...Go." She whispered.

"No." He answered again. Her irises started to go transparent...she was becoming blind somehow. She closed her eyes, knowing that she couldn't use them anymore...she couldn't see him anymore. A tear came down her cheek as she tried to reason with herself to ease Elliot's pain all by ignoring her own.

Elliot saw the tear go down... the only tear she'd ever shed. Hero came up behind them and licked Raina's hand, like if it was supposed to bring her back. He whined when it didn't work. He kept on trying though. Hero wasn't going to leave Raina, neither was Elliot.

"Elliot...Go now." She gave him her locket...the one with the most personal attachment.

"No."

Knowing full well that Elliot wasn't going anywhere Walter grabbed him from behind and held him back while Matylda and Jane hurried to bring Raina to the resistance.

"No!" yelled Elliot as he was dragged back. Hero was howling at the center of the confusion.

Hero ran over to Raina and pushed her hand. Normally she would pet him but now...nothing. He whined and pushed again.

"Her...o" She smiled. "Go boy...Good dog." She whispered.

Matylda and Jane brought her down the tunnel one step at a time. With Elliot's screams in the back they worked as quickly as they could. As she was being lowered she opened her eyes hoping to see something...she saw the silhouette of her dog whining at the opening of the hatch. She let another tear as she whispered his name. "Hero..."

And there was nothing else left...total darkness. She could hear Elliot's screams and Hero's howls but nothing mattered...she was going to die...just like her parents before her.

Like a martyr...like a saint... like a hero.

As the hatch closed Elliot's tears let loose. He held the locket firmly in hand. Hero walked with his head down towards him and put his head on his lap.

Logan did this...He took away the only friend they both had.

Rains took a bullet for him, Elliot the prince of Albion. The one who loved a martyr.

"Logan...will...die." he swore as Hero whined. Walter brought Jasper and the Prince in the crypt. Where their journey will begin.

Elliot, the Prince who became a Hero.