Well as you know if you read the description in this story it is the girls who are rescuing the boys, just for you to understand this is what happened, Will, Horace, Halt and Gilan were once again asked to go on a mission but then they were capture by the Scotti whom keep them as hostages. And I want to make you aware that most of the characters belong to John Flanagan. And the story will be told as if I where Princess Cassandra. In this story princess Cassandra will be known as Evanlyn.

"Come on Alyss, you can do it." Evanlyn said once again, she and Alyss were training with bow and arrow after they both had had sword lessons.

"Evanlyn, even though we got your dads permission to go and that we are taught how to fight with swords, bow and arrow, knives and even how to make them. Wouldn't it be useful to be able to use a sling?" Alyss asked.

"Alyss, I know that, but I can teach you those skills, but the skills we learn now we have to learn from others. And we can learn sling skills everywhere, oh and have you learnt how to move like the ranger's yet?" I told her

"Stop complaining about it, and yes I learnt it and I know it, I just have to get the bow and arrow skills in my head and then we can start packing." Alyss said.

Then Alyss shot strait at her goal and she didn't miss. Well I thought the diplomatic girl began to come loose.

"Good shot Alyss. Lady Cassandra your dad says that the horses are ready and Alyss can have her own horse, you should go over to the horse stable. And tomorrow at sunset you will have to start you journey." Evanlyn's Butler said.

"Why tomorrow?" I asked

"Well King Duncan says that you are ready and that you will have to leave as soon as possible to have the biggest chance to save them." The Butler said.

Alyss nodded to show she understood it. She pulled the arrows out and put them in the container on her belt. We walked over to the horse stables and saw two ponys. I felt my mouth fall open and I heard a laugh.

"I don't think you know that I trained some Ranger horses for you." Old Bob said.

I turned around and grinned at him and then looked back at the horses while asking "Old Bob, which horse is who's?"

"Lady Cassandra the light brown one, Amber is yours, and the dark brown one, Chestnut is yours Alyss. Today I will teach you how to ride them and I want both of you to whisper in your horses ear, am I allowed to step up, it's quite a long sentence, but I did give bot your horses the same sentence so that you can ride both horses." Old Bob said.

We both looked at the pony's and inspected them, they were about one and a half meter high and they looked awesome, we were taught how to saddle them and how to ride them and most importantly how to care for them. After that we were given three bags each, to put our stuff in. But before we left we were taught how to place the bags on the horse.

As we walked out of the stable Alyss said "You know Evanlyn, it's all so exciting. That we are rescuing them instead of them rescuing us. Well we will find them now lets go pack."

I nodded as we walked through the gate. We walked up the stair to my room. As we entered I said "I think we have to pack some simple clothes and some simple dresses instead of those big puffy dresses. Oh I just remembered that my dad gave me two of those ranger capes."

We packed 3-4 pairs of pants each and many woolen shirt and some blouses. We also packed some personal stuff each. Alyss also packed a lamp to send coded messages, that was something she had taught, me the code for sending messages.

We also packed some paper and writing equipment. I also had a first aid kit with me, there were some bandages and some medical creams in it and some stitching equipment.

We also each had a small bag with knife sharpeners and sword sharpeners, and a bag with arrows, and a pouch with extra arrow points.

We also had another kit for thread and needle to sew clothes.

We went to bed early that day.

When we woke up the next day we were both very awake and we took the bags down to the stable and put them on the horses. Then we led the horses outside and let them stand in the middle of the training field while we went to retrieve our weapons.

We both had the sling, the two knives and a cone shaped bag with arrows on our belt, also had a recurve bow and a sword in our hands as we walked back to the horses.
We put the sword in the special made pouch on the horses saddle.
And we rode to the gate of the castle with the bow on our lap, this was something we had elarnt form Old Bob. We didn't need our hands for riding we used our feet.

"You know I still think we should say farewell to your father." Alyss said

I turned around to look at the castle gate and smiled when seeing my dad there in his nightwear, we rode over to him and I shook his hand

"I'm going to miss you Cassie and you to Alyss, take care will you." King Duncan said.

I grinned and waved goodbye then we rode off to the adventure. We were chatting happily when I saw my reflection in a pool of water, then I said "Alyss? I think we should put our ranger capes on."

"You are entirely correct Evanlyn" Alyss replied, we put our capes on and continued chatting about all things in life when suddenly I heard something we went silent as we looked for the source of the noise.

We both looked at the exact same spot as something moved. We heard saw a bird fly up from that spot and thought it would have been the bird which made the sound I looked at Alyss and she looked at me, and we understood each other we started chatting again while I looked at the spot nothing happened as we rode by.

We rode for days in the rangers tempo which meant four hours riding and then a small pause and eight hours full stop with watchposts.

Finally we arrived at Macindaw castle and we rode in the Grimmsdell wood, I followed Alyss since she new the way here.

We finally arrived at an open spot where a house stood, there came Shadow running down the field to Alyss, we had come of the horses and she bent down to greet the dog. There came a giant over the field and I almost screamed.

"Hi Trobar." Alyss said calmly

The giant, Trobar nodded. Then there came another man out of the house, he greeted Alyss and then spoke to me

"Lady Cassandra, we are honored for being allowed your presences, and why is this presence may I ask?"

"You are given this presence because, we, Alyss and I are travelling to the North to rescue our Friends. And we are here because we think we may need some antidotes, for poisons they have in the North, and because we have heard that we may be able, to find another animal companion whom can help us on our journey." I answered.

"Well, the antidote I can give you and I can also refill you supplies of food and drinks. But the animal companion you have to ask Trobar." The man answered as he walked back to the house.

And before I could ask. Alyss asked Trobar.

"May we?"

Even I from five meters away could see the pain in Trobars face when he nodded, he walked back to the forest and cam back with a puppy in his hands. I smiled as I took the puppy.

"What is her name?" I asked when I noticed it was a girl.

"Iht" Trobar answered.

"Night?" I asked. Trobar nodded and I smiled.

"I will take good care of her Trobar, I promise." I said and smiled at him. Just at that moment the man came back out.

"Here is the equipment Lady Cassandra, and Trobar this was the best, the puppy has to see the world, you have two more puppies and they love, you. And I think it was a difficult decision for you, but you were right by giving them Night. Don't worry, you'll see her again." The man said as he handed me the equipment. I gratefully accept the equipment and put them in the bags on Amber's back.

As I turned around I saw two more people coming with some buckets, two with water and two bunches of hay. They gave each horse a bunch of hay and a bucket of water. Then I saw Trobar walking over to me with a basket with a small pillow in it, I noticed it must be for Night and I placed it on top of the bags on Amber's back. I tightly fastened it to the bags so it would stand steady and I tried pulling it down without much luck and declared it was tight enough.

Then I stepped aside so Trobar could make it as he wanted. He put the pillow in tightly and it looked really comfortable then he put in a small quilt and made a sort of cave where night would lie. Then he fastened to bowls in the side of the basket. I noticed the basket looked like a dog house with a door at one of the four sides and a roof, this basket looked just like that. Then he took some water out of the bucket with a cup and put it in the bowl. Then he went to retrieve a bag with dog food and handed it to me. I looked at Alyss and we put the bag of dog food in her bags. But before we closed it we took a cup of food and put it in the other bowl. Then we told the people our farewell as we rode out of the woods.

As we rode out of the woods the little puppy ran beside us. But then we had to walk over a pool of water and the puppy jumped on the Amber's back.

We rode over the road into the land of the Scotti, where we were ambushed by five Scotti, we quickly took our bows and shot four of them before the reached us, I hadn't noticed how smoothly it went, practice does make perfect. But there was something else I hadn't noticed, Night had jumped of the horse and she was now in front of the last scotti, his dagger raised high soon shooting down ti kill Night.

The arrow was on my bow and I pulled back. Ready to shoot...

Will Evanlyn be able to kill the Scotti before he kills Night, if you want to know read the next chapter. And please leave ideas, comments, tips and reviews.