Hello everybody. Jpbake here with a new story for the new year. If you are a follower of mine and are wondering if I will be finishing my other two stories, don't worry I will still be finishing. If this is your first time reading one of my stories congrats and hope you enjoy it and hopefully you will be pleased with my writing. Without further ado let's get started.
My name is Eugene Fitzherbert and I am dead. Well not really dead, the person I was before these past events is dead. The person I once was is dead. Confused? Let me explain, what started as a ordinary day quickly turned into nightmare that left me on the brink of death and the kingdom trying to survive it's darkest hour. What happened you ask? Well let's take you to the very beginning before this all happened.
It started out as a nice, ordinary day, it was mine and Rapunzel's third wedding anniversary and I had plans galore of how to spend that day.
"Happy anniversary love." I told Rapunzel as we just woke up that morning and gave her a kiss.
"Happy anniversary Eugene" Rapunzel laughed.
"Ok get dressed quickly because I have a huge list of plans to spend today. I got us breakfast reservations at the Snuggly Duckling, then I am going to take you on boat tour around the kingdom before topping it all off with front row seats at a concert."
"But I already know most of the sights here in Corona." Rapunzel said
"Yeah but you spent the first eighteen years of your life locked in a tower and during that time you never once stepping outside." I said "Trust me my dear there are places here that you still haven't seen, but today I'm going to show them all to you, every last one."
"Eugene you always go out of your way on this day with spoiling me with all these great things." Rapunzel said as she got dressed and combed her brunette hair. Her hair at one point was extremely long (And I mean extremely long) and blonde, but after I rescued her from a evil woman named Gothel her hair got cut short and turned brown. I actually like it shorter and brown.
"It's only because I love you and want to give you the best." I told Rapunzel as I wrapped my arms around her and kissed her cheek as she giggled.
"Happy anniversary sweety." King Liam and Queen Girda said walking into the room.
"Thanks dad." Rapunzel replied hugging him.
Man, what can I say about the King and Queen except they are the best. After I had rescued their daughter from Gothel they immediately took me in and treated me like part of the family. So when I asked permission to marry their daughter it was no surprise that they gave me their blessings.
"Your royal majesties." The kings most trusted adviser Greyson Fox said walking in. Greyson was a man in about his thirties just a little taller then me by about three inches with jet black hair and a thin goatee and a thick German accent
"Greyson cancel all my meetings for today," I told Greyson "Today is just about me and Rapunzel."
"Already did that sir, I figured with what day it is that you would be busy."
"Thank you my good lad, why did those fools schedule those meetings for today anyway." I said
"It's a real mystery your majesty" Greyson said stroking his goatee like he always does when he was in thought.
As soon as we both got ready we got on our horse Maximus and rode to our favorite pub the Snuggling Duckling. Don't let the name fool you the place is filled with some of the toughest guys I know, one of them our waiter Hook hand. I'm pretty sure he has a name but he never told us so we all just call him Hook hand, which he is surprisingly fine with being called.
"Well if it isn't Eugene and Rapunzel." Hook hand called out to us as we walked in. "What can I get for the Princess and her man."
"Eggs, fried and do not burn them this time Hook hand." I said in a half joking voice, "and two glasses of red wine."
"Right away." Hook hand said going to the kitchen to fetch our order. Despite his tough look Hook hand and the rest of the thugs that hung around there could actually be really nice guys. Don't get me wrong They could break a bone or five when they needed to but deep down they all could be little teddy bears.
"So are you two going to be coming to my concert tonight?" Hook hand asked "I will be performing Mozart."
"Already got front row tickets." I said showing him the tickets.
"Great, see you there." Hook hand said before going to the kitchen to wash some dishes.
Now I know what you guys are probably thinking. This seems like just some nice sweet day, what could possibly turn this south? Well it started pretty much shortly after this. After we finished our meal we headed to the boat shop to rent a boat for the day. What we didn't know was that following us from a distance was a group of goons wearing wolf masks. As soon as we reached the boat shop I tied Maximus to a tree and as me and Rapunzel walked toward the shop that is when it happened. Two goons sneaked up behind us and put bags over are heads and struck us over the heads knocking us out.
We woke up what I assume was a couple hours later in what I think was a dimly lit house because it had a fire place and with a poker on the far side of the room but I didn't know for sure. What I do know was that me and Rapunzel was each tied to a chair, our arms bound behind our backs and two men in wolf masks walked up to us.
"Well look what we have here, the royal Princess and her man." One of them said
"Please just let us go." Rapunzel begged our captures.
"Who are you and what do you want with us?" I demanded
"We are a terrorist group called the Wolf pack." The mask man said. "We thrive off mayhem and the overruling of power. Our goal is to see this kingdom of Corona burn."
"Then what does that do with us?" I asked as I sneaked out a knife out of my back pocket and started cutting away at the ropes around my wrists.
"Please." Rapunzel pleaded. "We'll give you anything if you let us go. Money, your weight in gold, trust me we have a lot of money in the palace, name your price."
"You think we are interested in money?" The man laughed. "Trust us my dear your money means little to me."
"Then maybe this will." I said as I got finished cutting through my ropes and lunged at the guy with my knife. I plunged the knife into his side before kicking the other guy in the chest and grabbing the poker at the fire place and knocking him over the head with it. Then as the two wear on the ground I quickly cut free Rapunzel's bounds and grabbed her by the hand.
"Come on." I said as we headed for the exit. As we ran toward the exit I saw two swords mounted on the wall and grabbed them thinking they might come in handy. When we got outside I saw we where on the top floor of some strange building and right below us was the ocean. If we fell we would be sent adrift, we had to be careful. Suddenly more men in wolf mask came charging after us. Man how many of these guys were there?
I handed one sword to Rapunzel and kept the other for myself as we fought to escape our attackers. Luckily I still had the poker that I grabbed from the fire place as I started hitting a couple of our attackers in the face with it as we clashed swords. After I whacked one of our attackers over the head with the poker I heard a loud whinny of a horse and saw crashing threw the crowd of terrorist was Maximus, apparently after we got abducted he somehow broke free from his ropes and came chasing after us.
"Boy am I glad to see you." I said, grabbing Rapunzel's arm and running after him. I put Rapunzel on Maximus but just before I could hop I heard a arrow being shot at me, causing me to turn around and slice it away with my sword before I got struck with it. There was still to many of them coming, and I knew we both couldn't get free without them coming at us. I had to get Rapunzel out of here.
"Go!" I ordered Maximus, "Come back for me, I'll fight them off."
"No Eugene!" Rapunzel cried. "I'm not leaving you."
"Go dammit!" I ordered, as I swung my sword at one of my many attackers. Maximus was reluctant at first but I stared him in the eyes to let him know I would be fine and he raced off with Rapunzel back to the castle as I stayed behind and fought off my attackers.
Maximus ran straight for the castle and was greeted by The King and Queen.
"Rapunzel, what happened?" King Liam asked
"We were attacked by some terrorist." Rapunzel cried. "Eugene is still out there."
"Go!" Liam told Maximus. "Get Eugene back." Maximus nodded and ran as fast as he could.
I was fighting off those bloody crooks the best I could. One terrorist came at me with a bow, but I used the poker from the fireplace to knock the bow out of his hand before I tripped him to the ground. The bow landed in my hand and I knocked him over the head with it knocking him out.
Another guy came at me with a sword. We clashed swords for a few minutes before I kicked him in the chest and knocked him out with the back end of the bow I grabbed. There was only one guy left that I could see and as he charged me I picked up the sword and put it in the bow and shot it at the guy just like a arrow. It hit him straight in the chest and I knew he was not getting back up.
"Huh." I sort of laughed to myself. "Didn't think that would actually work"
That's when it happened, I never saw the guy hiding in the shadows until it was to late, not until I turned and saw a arrow strike me right in the right side of my chest. Maximus saw the indecent too and he whinnead in shock as I got shot with the arrow. I took a few steps back in shock as the guy in the wolf mask stepped out of the shadows. He didn't say a word to me as he stared me straight in the eye and kicked me over the edge, straight to the ocean water below to drown.
That's it for the first chapter, I hope you enjoyed it. Please leave a review and I will catch you later.