Hi, this is my first FanFic. I jsut got my account and I hope that all of you enjoy my story. My friend, xxroxy-dogxx is the author of Love Of a Knight. So you've probably read all her stories. She's the one who got me into this. so, please review when you're done reading. WooT!

:Kaitlyn:

:Chapter One:

"Get over here! Didn't I tell you to take that off?" Cassie's abusive uncle yells at her as her hits her across the face as hard as he can. She is 19 and has experienced this before, but because of her fragile figure it hurt much worse this time. She had been living with her uncle since she was about 14, and had no siblings to protect her from him. Her parents had been murdered just before she had turned 13, and though they never figured out who had done it, Cassie had an idea of whom it might have been. Her best friend Roxy was always by her side since she started living with her uncle, but they were never allowed to be at each other's houses unless her uncle was at work and couldn't "take care" of her.

Cassie falls to the wooden floor, tears streaming from her face. She starts to crawl back from her uncle, but backs into a wall. She starts to cry even harder, realizing she has no way out. She is a very shy, depressed girl, and has no hope, dreams, or goals, except for right now. Her goal at the moment is to escape her uncles clutches.

"You're trapped now!" Screams her uncle as he kicks the door shut behind him. She can feel something sticking out of the wall and quickly looks behind her to see a plug. She pulls it out just as her uncle approaches her and stabs it into his leg, causing him to fall and grab his it.

She gets up and tries to run out the door to the stables where her black stallion, Geo, and her backpack full of clothes are waiting, but her uncle grabs her by her long, thick, dark brown hair and drags her to ground again. The plug she had used to stab into his leg is right next to her but he has pinned her arms and legs down so she can't move. She stretches her hand as far out as she could and pulls on it, so the lamp on the desk above falls and hits his head, causing him to collapse and loose consciousness.

She gets up and runs out the door to the stables, as planned, and rides as far away into the woods as she can until she can't see a familiar thing in sight. She has ridden almost everywhere in the woods before, but never here. It is too dark for her to see anything, and the cold winds whips her hair into her eyes and face, causing her to not be able to see anything, so she just stops by a redwood tree and sits under it for a few minutes with her horse. She is going to meet her friend Roxy somewhere in here, but she hasn't showed up yet.

All of a sudden she could hear something up in the tree and decides to move out from under it incase it falls out. There is a bunch of rustling and the sound of twigs and small branches breaking, and all of a sudden Roxy falls onto the ground in front of her with her black hair in her eyes.

"Hey! I didn't think you were gonna make it." She says getting up, and blowing her hair from her eyes. Cassie can now see Spike, Roxy's black stallion tied to a tree behind her.

From the light of the moon Roxy can see by the pale expression on Cassie's face, something bad has happened. Her warm smile fades away.

"Oh my gosh, please tell me you're alright. Don't tell me he did it to you again." She says pulling her into a tight, securing hug.

"No," Cassie says between sobs, "He didn't. But he was close to it."

The next morning, Cassie is awakened to the sun beaming in her eyes. She gets up and walks around for a bit. Roxy is still sleeping, so she thinks she'll just wake her up when she gets back. She walks about 20 yards in each direction before returning to the tree where Roxy is sleeping. She arrives to see seven knights standing around Roxy.

She runs past them and up to Roxy who is already introducing herself.

"And this is my best friend Cassie," She says pointing to her, "Hey Cassie, It's Arthur and his knights! Isn't that cool!"

"Uh…sure?" Cassie says with a confused look on her face. "What happened to us?"

"Well, I don't really know, and I don't care. But isn't this cool!" Roxy says excitedly.

"Uh…sure…" She replies. She is so confused and spaced out that she doesn't realize her knees have given out and she has fallen to the ground.

"Cassie! Are you alright?" Roxy asks frantically as everyone surrounds her. She feels light-headed, as if the world around her is spinning. Everything is black as she falls back into Tristan's arms.