Forward: This story takes place in Acre, eighteen years after Robin Hood (the season 2 finale to be more specific). This is the diary of Ella Scarlet, daughter of Djaq and Will Scarlet. The story is a coming of age, action, adventure, and romance story. Ella is not aware of her parents past and she lives a whole different life than what her parents did. War still surrounds Ella and her family, but will it end before she has to become part of it
Note: I do not own the characters of Robin Hood, even though I do in my dreams ;). I am aware that there are a few things that may be wrong, I have only seen up through season 2.
Chapter 1
Secrets
The sun is beating down on my neck as Amir and I take a break from our usual games of hunting and fighting with each other. Its days like today that I realize how much I love Acre. I never, ever would want to leave this wonderful place. I absolutely love my life. I love being able to run and fight with my friends. This is where I was meant to be. Here, in the meadows of Acre, away from people, where I can hold my weapon and no one around can care what I can do with it.
So, saying this is a diary and all, I should probably start talking about my self and stuff like that. My name is Esmeralda Sophia Scarlet, Ella for short. I am seventeen years old, and the only daughter of Will and Djaq Scarlet. The first born, but most certainly not the last. I have three younger brothers. Dan and Luke, the fourteen-year-old twin monsters, and Allan, the ten year old ball of energy. My mother is not like most women here. She has short hair, always wears pants, and work at the hospital caring for wounded soldiers. Some days, I wish I were like her, free to be who I really am, and openly being able to do what I love. I have been told that I am a lot like her. We have the same short hair, although mine is longer, but tied back with some string, and we also have the same brown eyes. My father has also told me that I have the same spirit as my mother. By that, I have no idea what he means. I am a fighter. I was born to fight, and I will probably die fighting too. I have never seen her lift a hand towards me or my brothers or anybody really. I have also never seen her fight before in my life. My father, a truly brave man, I know has. He tells us about how he fought in the war. He became wounded and that's how he met my mother, a medic on the front. Still, I have never seen him fight either. The only place I see him, besides when he's holding my mother in his arms, is when he is in the shop building things or teaching Dan and Allan to build things. Unfortunately for me and Luke, Allah never did bless us with the gift of building things, so we are rarely in there with our father. Personally, I cannot make as much as a toothpick on a good day. Luke was blessed with the powers of healing, like my mother. He is usually by her side, learning the tricks to the trade. I, on the other hand, was blessed with something else. I was blessed with the gift to fight. I can take down a fully-grown man with just my bare hands. I can shoot a bow and arrow with extreme accuracy, same throwing a knife. I also know my way around my favorite weapon, a sword, if you know what I mean.
With my brothers and parents always working and such, I am usually in the loving hands of my two best friends Amir and Aasia. They are the only two people that know the real me and all my secrets. This is why they gave me this diary. They gave it to me so I had someone to share all my secrets with, and so I don't bore them to death, telling the same stories over and over again. I mean honestly, who would want to hear that.
The one thing that barely anyone know about me is that I am apart of the Saracen army. No, I don't fight on the front, although I do fear that I may soon for the front does grow closer everyday. My duty is that I gather information for the generals on the front, and when needed, I kill the people I get my information from. This is what I do best, and what I love more than anything. I have my special ways of getting information, killing, and getting out of some pretty sticky situations. Amir and Aasia are also with me and what I do. Amir and I have always been friends, ever since I can remember. Aasia came from a different type of family than Amir and me. She comes from a very wealthy family. She was told that it was her destiny to fight with the Saracens. The two of them usually grow bored of me talking about our jobs all the time, but they are the only two people who I can talk about this kind of stuff. I really don't know what I would do with out them, Amir especially. He has basically been but as my "guard" when we go on our missions, although, most of the time, I end up guarding him. We are a team. We are not meant to be apart. We are like the pigeons that my family raises, when we are separated, we are willing to fly thousands of miles to find each other. There are days where I find myself wondering what it would be like to marry him, have a family together, and having him always be by side until death does us part. I think that I just may be in love with him. I have never told anyone this, not Aasia, not my father, brothers, or even my mother, just you dear diary. This is between me and you. I am one of the best fighters in all of Jerusalem; I don't want people to think that I have mushy-gushy girl feelings. Yuck! Oh, but how good does that feel to get that off my chest though. I must get going and do something else before my girl feelings get out of control.
Sorry that this one is a bit boring, I promise you that there is more excitement to come in the next few chapters, it's going to be good ! I am also aware that there are a few things that are wrong with the television story line in here, but I all lose ends will be tied up at the end. Reviews are very welcome!