AN: Well here is the sequel! Hope you like it. Please review. I would love to know where all you guys think the girls should end up in the story. I got a few places picked out but if you have any suggest I'm open to them! I own nothing of Newsies and I own nothing of what could be brought up in the story. By the way this was all written on my IPad so there are probably a lot of mistakes.
Run in with the Knights of the Round Table
We were back in the darkness I hoped I would never have to see again. I wasn't as panicked as I was the first time but there were more of us than before and it would be hard to find everyone in complete darkness.
"Guys! We need to find everyone!" I shouted.
"Ya don' have ta scream." Spot said in my ear. I whirled around and accidentally hit him.
"Jesus! What was dat for?" He shouted.
"It was an accident." I screeched covering my mouth. I felt a hand on my shoulder.
"Got everyone together. Now we wait, right?" Pearl said quietly grabbing my hand. I searched for Spot and finally found him and grabbed his hand. A few minutes later dull lights surrounded us in a circle. "Where are we supposed to go?" Pearl asked in a worried voice.
"I don't know." I whispered. "Spot grab her hand." I told him as I looked around for somewhere that wouldn't kill us.
I walked around in a circle not really sure what I was doing. Then I saw the light come around where I used to stand. Everyone fell in the hole and I had to dive to get in before it disappeared as quickly as it appeared. I opened my eyes to see a clear blue sky that had hardly any trace of clouds. Then I realized that I was falling. I turned over and saw the blue water coming at me just as I hit it. I swam to the surface and saw that everyone was safe on the shore of the lake or ocean. I swam towards them and fell on the shore.
"Why must I be the one to fall in the water?" I asked trying to catch my breath.
"Let's try to figure out where we are." Pearl said pulling me up to my feet.
"Alright." I said not fighting when they dragged me to towards the forest that surrounded the lake.
We wandered around for a little while. I had the feeling that someone was following us but when I looked back there was nothing. We were in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by trees when the clank of metal finally found us.
"Halt! Who goes there?" A British sounding voice asked from behind a group of trees.
"What's halt mean?" Jack asked Jaws quietly.
"I said who goes there?" the voice asked again angrily.
"We're lost! Can you help us?" I screamed.
The voice finally broke through the trees. It was a group of guys in chain mail and riding horses.
"In the name of the king you are under arrest." Someone else said sliding of their horse and pointing a sword at me.
"Whoa...we didn't do anything. Why are we arrested?" I asked throwing my hands up.
"Invading the king's property." another said joining the other knight pointing swords at us. "Tie them to the horses." he ordered. A different guy came up to us with rope. He tied my hands and then started to tie Spot's hands when he punched him.
"Spot!" I shouted. Then I had to pull the rope and punched the guy that tied my hands. I wiggled out of the rope getting a nice rope burn in the process. "Run!" I shouted heading back in the direction that we came.
I dodged trees every once in a while and looked back once to make sure we were all there. That's when I ran into a tree. I sat up and rubbed my head seeing that I didn't run into a tree but a person. He was older than me but not by a whole lot. Maybe twenty or so. He had dark hair and dark eyes to match. His skin was pale and he was dressed different than the guys in chain mail with Brown pants and a dark blue shirt.
"Stop!" the guy with the rope said catching up to us. "Merlin? What in god's name are you doing here?"
"She's...She came from the lake." Merlin said slightly out of breath.
"Wait. Merlin. As in Merlin in Camelot and King Arthur?" I asked in quick voice.
"You know him?" The, I assumed, knight asked.
"She came from the lake! She's the lady!" Merlin said getting to his feet.
"Impossible." one said in a disbelieving voice.
"Hold up. Lady? As in Lady of the Lake?" Pearl asked with an arched eyebrow.
"Sitting in a forest debating if I live in a lake is getting us nowhere." I said flatly.
"They are under arrest. Tie them up." The head knight said quickly.
"Enough of this crap! Will you stop trying to arrest us for doing nothing?" I shouted as thunder roared.
"Holy crap." Cap muttered.
"Don't go crazy or anything." Chick said watching the sky. There was a splash of waves coming from the lake. I could have sworn someone was screaming but by the looks of the people around me they didn't hear anything. I started to feel like Harry when the dementors came after him.
"Send her back." the one with the rope said.
"Don' touch her!" Spot screamed as they pushed me towards the lake. The head knight was holding him back at sword point.
"You can't send her back. She comes and goes on her own free will." Merlin argued with the knight that was pushing me towards the angry looking water.
All I could think about was the day at the docks. How it got darker and darker the longer I was under and the chill that came over me before it all went black. I was afraid and I wasn't going to lie. My feet touched the water and I knew that the knights wouldn't let me come back out. I hid my worried looked as I turned to look back at my friends. When I looked at my feet that were invisible due to the dark water. Then there was a worried face that came only a few feet away from me.
"Help." a bubble came from the scared face. Then there was a hand around my ankle and I was pulled towards the middle of the lake. I opened my eyes to the darkness but saw a bright blue face. The same face I saw at my feet before I was dragged in. "Do not be afraid. You are safe in my domain. I need your help though." She kinda looked like a mermaid from the Pirates: On Stranger Tides. "All you have to do is pretend to be me for as long as you're here. Those fools have been bothering me and throwing things into my precious lake. Will you please do this for me?" I gave a quick nod. "Good. Now just go with what happens and they will believe you are me." With that she let me swim up and I had barely enough time to catch my breath when there was a burst of water and I was in a bubble. There was a mumble of words but I didn't hear anything and then I was back on the shore with a shocked Merlin and everyone else looking like I just walked on water.
"What's wrong with you guys?" I asked looking at them like they were crazy.
"The king needs to know about this." The head knight said leaping onto his horse and riding back the way they came. The other knights quickly followed suit.
"We should follow them." Merlin said leading the way and we all followed behind him not really sure where we were going.
We walked throughout the woods. I was soaked and the sun didn't seem to dry them. Branches and roots nearly tripped us as we broke through the tree line. I heard several gasps as we saw the castle. It was huge and had so many different shapes. Some parts were circular and some were square. It was really amazing how so simple it was but yet it seemed almost untouchable. We forced our feet to separate from the ground and traveled toward the object that started our paralysis. The castle loomed over us when they pushed the girls to one side and the boys to the other. Spot and the other guys nearly beat the knights that pushed them but they saw our warning glances and quickly backed off and followed the knights to where ever they were lead.
(Jack's POV)
They were pushed away from the girls. The only reason they jumped through that wall. The stares that looked over the knight's shoulders stopped them from doing anything. He saw the weird look that one of the knights gave Jaws in the woods. He didn't like it. He would do what it took to keep him away from her. They ended their journey in a hall that had what seemed like thousands of doors. The knight pointed them each into a room. Jack was amazed by the size of the room. It was like two of the bunk rooms combined. There was a huge four poster bed with a trunk at the end. In a far off corner there was a huge dresser with carefully designed flowers and birds on branches carved into it. Someone walked in and laid clothes on the bed but Jack was too busy taking in everything to notice the squeak the door made.
There was a knock on the door and he turned to see a servant in nice clothes. Her hair was straight and flew well past her shoulders. Her green eyes looking up from the floor only once.
"Supper is nearly ready. The king will be wishing to see you as well as your friends." she said curtsying and walking out the door. He looked at the clothes on the bed. They looked a lot like...what's his face' clothes. What was his name? Mer...Mer something...
Jack put the clothes on quickly when he heard the other doors squeak. His shirt was a light green and his pants were a dark tan. He walked out to see the other boys. Spot had on dark brown pants and a navy blue shirt, not very different from what he had on earlier. Skittery looked uncomfortable in the scratchy material. The black based fabric didn't seem too happy with him either. Mush had a smile on his face but it was more of an encouraging smile than a real smile. The indigo shirt matched the brown pants easily. Race was the first to voice his dislike.
"Dey crazy o' sumtin? It's as crazy as Nut." Race said watching as Spot boiled over at his comment. "Dis stuff ain't worth jack." he finished with a smile tugging at his light blue shirt and tan pants that matched Jack's.
Merlin waved them towards the end of the hall. He pushed open the huge doors that opened up to a huge table that was being set by several people. "Sit down. Everyone else will be coming in shortly." Merlin said with a wave of his hand. They all sat and waited.
(Nut Job's POV)
I took in the room and found my way to the small window that was out of the way. It was beautiful. I found a field that I would have to investigate later. There was a soft knock on the door and I turned to see a girl walk in with a navy dress on her arm. I guess I looked good in dark colors... She helped me get in the dress and tied up the god awful lace up back. I looked down at it and it made me think of Merida from Brave. It was surprising how comfortable it was. I followed the girl out the door to see my friends admiring their dresses. Chick had a dull red dress on that she twirled around in for a few minutes. Jaws looked happy with the lavender dress she had while Pearl looked envying Chick's dress wishing she had the red instead of the lime green dress she had. Cap looked happy with the light blue dress.
"Follow me, please." the girl who helped me said heading down a long hallway.
We followed and tried to remember where our rooms were. We stared down little hallways to find some sort of landmark to help us to our rooms. I nearly ran into the girl when she stopped to open huge wooden doors. There was a huge table in the middle of the room that held plates and cups. When we walked in the boys nearly trampled us with questions of concern. I ignored the questions hearing a sort of clicking in the hall. It was like heavy boots walking. I looked at my friends faces and knew they heard the noise too.
"Maybe we should sit. Quickly." Pearl said finding the nearest chair she could find.
We all scrambled into our chairs when the door was opened. In the door way was the stereotypical King Arthur or at least the King Arthur I've always seen. He was tall with blonde hair and I assumed blue eyes but they had a tint of green.
"Merlin, here, tells me you came from the lake. And do I have the pleasure of being in the presence of the Lady of the Lake?" he asked taking his own high backed chair.
"I am a lady and I came out of the lake so if you wish to call me the Lady of the Lake I will answer." I said felling impressed by how I was telling the truth but making them think I was the Lady. It was fun.
"Well then we shall feast then enjoy the rest of the night." Arthur said digging into the meal that was brought out.
It reminded me a lot of Midevil Times without the jousting and stuff. Spot made a fact of telling everyone that the wine was crap and wasn't strong enough. The other guys didn't complain they just drank. Our girl group seemed to be the only ones not chugging the stuff. We all excused ourselves from the table at different intervals. Pearl and I stared at the wall behind the table. The others had left and we were left listening to the drunken babble of the rest of the group.
"Excuse us." I said pushing away from the table. We both left and they had no clue.
"Where are we going?" Pearl asked as we wandered around the castle not really sure where we were.
"We wander and open random doors hoping that someone isn't stripping." I replied as we opened a door. Someone screamed as it swung open. We ran down the hall not looking back or stopping till we were on the other end of the castle.
"Let's not do that again." Pearl said trying to catch her breath.
"They went this way!" Someone yelled with heavy footsteps coming towards them.
"Crap." I said opening the nearest door and falling into the room which was full of knights swinging swords and other sharp dangerous objects.
We ducked things coming at our heads and dodged other things that attacked us at different angles and places. I personally dived out the window to avoid a sword to the gut. It was a few minutes before Pearl jumped out and landed on top of me. Luckily it was a first floor window so I wasn't crushed when she fell on me. We looked around and realized we were near a field with a bunch of wanna be knights trying to shoot bows. I snickered when one of guys hit a tree instead of the target. He shot me a weird look. He looked at Pearl and smirked.
"I'd like to see a lady best me in archery. Will thou try?" He asked in a mean tone holding out the bow.
"Stuck up knight is going down!" Pearl said angrily nearly ramming my head into the grass as she pushed off to get to him.
The knight was going to get what he deserved. Pearl was always better when it came to archery. She was more of Katniss and I was the Hulk. She whipped the bow from his hands and shot an arrow hitting the target.
"Take that you bad shot foot licker!" she said dropping the bow at his feet. "Let's go to sleep. This is tiring."
We walked to the castle trying to find our rooms when I heard the familiar scream of Jaws. We both ran toward the door. I pushed it open and there was the head knight that tried to tie me to his horse.
"Get off my sister creep!" I screamed shoving him into the huge dresser.
"The king has agreed that I shall marry her." He said with a weird smile.
"We'll see about that. Where's this king and let's see how far my foot goes up his ass." I screeched grabbing Jaws and dragging her down the hall. "MERLIN!" I screamed down the halls.
"What?" he asked stumbling out of a door.
"Where's the king?" I asked through my teeth.
"The king is here." Arthur said walking from farther down the hall.
"What's this about my sister marrying some knight?" I said snapping at him.
"He asked and I gave my approval." He said brushing it off.
"What about my approval. I don't give it!" I screamed hearing a door squeak open.
"The wedding is being planned already. We can't stop it now." Arthur said with a shrug.
"Well stop it! You're the king. You can stop it any time you'd like!" I shouted not caring about the people behind me.
I saw him mumble something to a knight and he came over to me prying my hands off Jaws arm. With me screaming and kicking he dragged me away. I heard someone else screaming but I couldn't stop myself from screaming. We went through several halls and down loads of stairs. I heard the squeak of metal and then it went black.
