Hey two more days till Christmas!

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Here's chapter two!

Blood White

~ Chapter Two ~

I ran for what seemed hours, breaking ever branch, stick and bush that were in my way. I tried to catch my breath but I could grasp hold of it. I felt the adrenaline pump through out my body, pumping in my chest and up and down my legs. My body started to feel week and everything was closing in on me.

My dress was ripped all around the bottom and was covered in mud and grass stains, making me look like a complete and utter wreck. My hair had been pulled out of the neat piggy tales there were evenly balanced on the each side of my heads but now they hung loosely.

I must keep running, I must not stop…

I tried to force myself to carry on but I couldn't take it anymore. My feet and legs hurt, my arms ached and every bone in my body felt like it was broken.

Slowly my legs started to stop running, slowing down second by second. I tried to grab hold of the trees beside me to fully stop myself running but I couldn't grasp hold of them in time.

My weight fell forward causing me to fall, I tried to stop but it was too late, I was just a few inches away from the forest ground. I pushed my arms out in front of me trying to stop myself from hitting the ground but I was too slow.

I hit the hard cold ground with a thud, and that was the last thing I remembered as I slowly closed my eyes.

~o~0~o~

Footsteps lingered down the corridor as the dark haired huntsman walked nervously as he held a box in his hands. His eyes looked worried and sad, his legs were shaking rapidly but he tried to stop it as he got closer and closer to the giant gold double heavy doors.

"M-Medusa…" He stammered as he knocked on the door "I-I have done as you've asked…"

Suddenly the double doors opened with a click and standing on the other side was the amber eyed queen.

"Welcome back Huntsman. Has she been taken care of?" The queen asked as she turned around and walked towards the staircase.

"Y-yes, my grace… I have collected her h-heart as you asked me to…" He hesitated handing the small box out towards her.

Slowly the queen turnt to face him "Marvelous"

She placed her hands on even side of the box and took it away from his grasp, taking it in hers. She held it close to her body as if trying to keep it protected and in her sight at all times

She looked up at the boy "Dismissed…"

Without taking another second to think about his order he spun around and walked through the opened heavy doors and slowly pulled them closed behind him.

Once on the other side of the doors he let out a deep long breath sighing with relief that he didn't have to be around her for a while.

Now's my chance, I have to leave, just like Maka I have to run…

The queen stepped up the staircase towards the mirror, stepping up each step getting closer and closer to it. She stared back at her reflection watching the small box she held in her very hands.

"Mirror, Mirror on the wall…" Slowly she lifted up the box to the mirror as its image began to change "Now who's the fairest of them?"

The shadow's image began to form and replace the queen's appearance in mirror, once again growing those big large white hands attached to those stick like arms. His skull face stared at Medusa who was standing on the other side still holding the box.

"My grace, you are by far the most beautiful women in all the land," The shadow bragged on "But the young Princess still lives on fairer than ever…"

Medusa's eyes widened in rage "What…!"

The shadow winced "M-my grace"

"She's dead!" The amber eyed queen yelled "The Huntsman killed her and cut out her heart!"

"T-that is nothing b-but a cow's h-heart you h-hold in t-that box…" The shadow explained "Maka is s-still very m-much alive…"

"Aaaaaa!" Medusa screamed in anger.

She span around and threw the box towards the heavy doors causing it to smash into pieces and letting the cow's heart fly out and fall to the floor. The pieces of the shattered box clattered all over the floor smashing a little bit more.

"M-Medusa, c-calm down!" The shadow exclaimed.

"He tricked me!" Medusa yelled again "That stupid Huntsman tricked me!"

The shadow watched as the queen stormed down the staircase and over to the heavy doors. Medusa pulled them open and stepped out into the corridor looking around for the Huntsman.

"Screw him!" Her yells echoed throughout the castle "I'll kill that bitch myself!"

~o~0~o~

"Is she dead?" I could hear voices all around me "She looks like she's dead"

"Patty shut up!" Yelled a male voice "She's still breathing…"

"Uh… w-what should we do…?" A boy stammered.

"Should we take her back to the house?" Another girl said letting out a yawn of tiredness "We can't just leave her here"

"Calm down people" Said a much older voice than the others "We'll just take her back to the house and wait for her to wake up"

I didn't know who's voices they belonged to, I didn't even recognize them, I had never heard those voices in my life.

~o~0~o~

Slowly I began to open my eyes. Everything was blurry but I could just work out a smiley blonde haired blue eyed girl staring over the top of me.

"She's awake!" She yelled at the top of her lungs "And you were right Crona her eyes are beautiful!"

I sat up as quickly as I could but as I did a rush of dizziness took over and caused me to lie back down again.

"Careful" Said a grey haired man in glasses as he walked over to me "Patty could you bring this girl a glass of water"

"Yes!" The little blonde cheered and ran off down the stairs.

"W-where am I?" I stammered holding my head.

He man in glasses sat on the bed next to me "A little house in the forest"

"Who are you, all of you?" I asked looking around at all the people that were staring at me.

"I'm sorry" The man chuckled "How rude of me not to introduce myself, my name is Stein"

A pink haired boy stepped forward blushing holding his arms nervously behind his back "I'm Crona…"

"I'm Black*star!" Exclaimed a grumpy blue haired boy as he pointed in my direction "Don't you dare get on the bad side of me!"

He sort of scared me a little but then I shook it off pretending not to care.

Sitting in front of the bed a girl with brown hair yawned tiredly "My name's Liz…"

A red haired man stepped next to Stein, they looked around the same age "The name's…"

Suddenly he stopped talking and started taking in big gasps of air, a bigger on after the last. Finally he sneezed throwing his head forwards catching it in his hands.

"Spirit!" He held his hand out towards me.

I stared at his hand for a while "I'm good…"

The little blonde placed the glass of water next to my bed and jumped up on the table "Call me Patty!"

I smiled up at the cheerful young girl "Hey"

Finally a black haired girl stepped in front of everyone. She smiled down at me and gave a little wave but kept he hand by her head.

"Hello" I smiled back at her "What's your name?"

"Her name's Tsubaki" Black*star huffed "She doesn't speak, she's never said a word, to any of us. So don't go thinking she'll say anything to you especially"

Slowly I looked away and bowed my head towards my lap, digging my chin into my chest "I should leave…"

"Wait!" Patty jumped down off of the table "We wanna know your name!"

I stammered "My name…"

"Yeah you know all our names" Stein smiled.

I let out a soft giggle "My name's Maka, Maka Albarn"

Crona blushed evening more "The Princess?"

Slowly I nodded "Yeah"

Patty jumped up on the bed next to me "I've never met a Princess before!"

"What's it like being a Princess…?" Liz yawned once again.

"Yeah is it…" Spirit tried to finish his sentence but another sneeze fell in the way of his words "…fun?"

I giggled again "To be honest it's really boring, I never get to have any fun, I always have work to do"

"Do you know Prince Evans?" Patty asked very excitedly "His so dreamy…"

"I don't really know him, but his not a bad guy" I said sharing smiles to the people sitting around me.

Sitting in the corner of the room Black*star rolled his eyes "What are you doing here Maka?"

I turnt my head to face him, I could tell his was annoyed by my appearance but I didn't want to say anything to be rude "It's a long story actually"

"We have time!" Patty cheered.

I looked at her and smiled "It all started last night. I came home and standing in my living was Prince Evans. I didn't know what he was doing there and my father was standing there with this smug look on his face. He told me that Prince Evans was there to ask me a question, I didn't know what it was but then he got down on his knee…"

"He asked you to marry him!" Patty cheered "What did you say?"

"I said no…"

"Why!" Patty and Stein exclaimed at the same time.

"I don't know him, and his not my type" I giggled "I couldn't stay there with my dad repeatedly asking me why I didn't say yes, so I ran away. This morning I was walking around the woods just singing to the animals and out of no where there was this boy with an axe, he was going to kill me with it but he didn't"

"Oh my!" Patty gasped in horror.

Black*star once again rolled his eyes.

"He kept saying that he couldn't do it, he couldn't kill me" I carried on explaining "He told me to run, run as far away as I could. I asked him why and he something about the queen wanting to kill me…"

"Queen Medusa!" Stein yelled standing up "Be careful of that women!"

"You don't want to mess with her" Black*star shook his head "You don't know what she's capable of"

"I don't even know what I've done to make her want to kill me" I moved a strand of hair away from my face.

"That women devoirs every soul of every girl that's ever want to surpass her fairness!" Liz exclaimed without yawning.

"And with beauty such beautiful as yours I can see why she wants you dead…" Crona said quietly bowing his head.

"Where do I go?" I asked starting to panic.

"You don't go anywhere my highness, you stay right here" Stein said nodding his head.

"What!" The blue haired boy yelled jumping up "She's not staying here!"

"She's gonna have to Black*star!" Patty jumped up and walked towards the boy 'She has nowhere else to go!"

Black*star stared blankly at Patty and then glared across the room at me, giving me the most harshest of looks I had ever seen.

"Fine…" He sighed "She can stay here. But I'm not helping her!"

And with that being said he stormed out of the room and down the stairs, slamming the door shut behind him.

Stein turned back to face me "Don't worry about him, he gets like that sometimes"

I smiled lightly "Its okay…"

~o~0~o~

The black haired golden eyed boy ran through the forest running out of sight from the castle. He ran as fast as he could, he couldn't be trying to run as fast as he was running then. The wind was pushing back into his face, blowing his hair backwards letting the branches scratch the skin off of his cheek.

I must keep running, I must not stop…

The castle behind him was now to far beyond the trees to even catch a glimpse of, but it wasn't that he wanted to get away from it quickly, it was that he was sure someone or something was chasing him.

Please keep running…