Hellooooooooo! Oh my it has been such a long time!

Im truly sorry about this extremely late chapter but here you are and just to be extra sorry its 486 words longer than the last one. Yayyyyy…. Yes I actually counted, how sad is that? xD

Anyway… enjoy!


Chapter 2; Marble floors

"Ouch" Misaki's head really hurt as she gained consciousness. Her eyelids slowly opened and she looked around her getting a blurry vision of the bars that surrounded her. Her eyes flew wide open and she tried to stand up but her attempt failed as she fell back to the ground, she then realised she was still in wolf from, well her true form. She then remembered what happen back at her den. Tears started to stink her eyes as she realised what situation she was in.

The soldiers had taken her back to the great city 'Burdett', in a cage being carried by said soldiers. The kingdom was massive but she hated this place, it was full of sadness and death, she could smell it. There were houses everywhere and the ground was so worn out not a single piece of grass had grown on it, leaving it to become a muddy swamp.

People looked sickly and came up to the cage to look at Misaki, some spat at her, some laughed and children just stared and poked her through the cage. She totally ignored them and put on a straight face even though the tears in her eyes were still there. The soldiers who were carrying the cage boasted about how they captured her with their bare hands, which was obviously a lie.

She looked at the soldiers in disgust but she got distracted by where they were going. Her body tensed up as she was taken near a big building, fear took over her as she realised it was a massive palace. She knew exactly what the palace was for, it was were the all the royals lived. But why had she been taken here? They were getting closer and closer to the front door, the closer they got the more fear Misaki felt. Then there they were right outside the door, so close she could have touched it with her paw through the bars. This reminded her that she needed to get up and she tried again to stand up as the doors opened and the soldiers carried the cage in.

She actually found it quite easy to get up and stood on all fours, the potion must have worn off she thought. But just as hope sparked in her heart her cage door opened and she was hauled roughly out. Held by the scruff of her neck by one of the soldiers, Misaki let out a yelp. She could speak in this form but she wouldn't dare as the soldiers may not know she was half human as they had only seen her in this form. She was lifted up, forced to stand up on all fours and the man jerked her head back so it hurt. She clenched her teeth together and endured the pain.

Her eyes darted around and she realised she was in a big hall, it was beautifully decorated with a marble floor and 8 pillars which were also made out of marble on each side of the hall. Right at the end was a big door which had smooth carvings all over it and on the left and right side were many others doors similar but smaller. Two stair cases went up by the left and right side of the big door, at the end of the hall curving round onto to a second floor which Misaki was too small to see.

By now a women had walked up to the two soldiers and Misaki. She was wearing a maid costume and had blue hair tied up in two ponytails, she was very pretty but that was Misaki's least concern. The maid spoke in a soft voice "What business do you have here?" she said eyeing Misaki then looking back up at the soldiers.

"We have captured a wolf" a solider said back as he lifted up a poster which had the orders from the palace that they were looking for wolves but had no explanation why.

The maid's eyes widened but she still composed herself. "Okay, I will bring the master. For now why don't use the first room on the left" the maid said calmly as she started walking away.

The soldiers grinned "Oh and if you steal or ruin anything ill make sure you'll be hanged" she said still walking away.

That wiped the smile off the soldier's faces and they stood back shocked. Even though Misaki was been held quite painfully she smirked at the comment from the maid.

"Come on" one of the soldiers said to the other as he walked off to the room the maid designated to them. The other solider followed giving the maid one last glance pulling Misaki with him. She had to follow his hand movements or it would really hurt even though she's usually quite stubborn she had to go with it.

The soldiers walked into the room and shut the door behind them, finally they let go of Misaki. She collapsed to the floor and took deep breaths, the soldiers laughed at her but were soon distracted by the room they were in. It was like a study, equally beautiful as the hall with only one desk right at the end.

All the walls were not visible as bookcases covered them with many books in them. Misaki thought there were at least 1000 books in a single bookcase, they were huge!

Misaki stood up, the soldiers were looking around the room admiring all the expensive things and even looking at some of the books which were really big, obviously they couldn't read them, in the barracks you're not trained to read and write. Luckily Misaki could read and write and she was extremely smart. In fact she was defiantly smart enough to open a door, even in this form.

This was her advantage, they thought she was a stupid mutt but she had more brains than both of them combined. So when they were busy with their browsing she walked over to the door looking back all the time to check if they were still occupied. Quietly she stood up on her two feet and put her paws over the door handle looking back for the millionth time she saw they were still distracted and pulled the handle down and the door opened slowly.

To be honest she was thankful it was a rich place as the doors didn't creak when they opened and she slipped out without the soldiers noticing.

Bam as soon as she had got out of that room her senses came alive working out were the best way was to go and whether someone was nearby that could catch her. She used her nose and didn't smell much but perfume everywhere, just a smell of roses. 'Great' Misaki thought, the smell of the roses was overwhelming. Not in a sickly way as it was quite nice to smell something different, as the cage she was put in throughout the whole journey to the city smelled of… wee (Which was not something she wanted to think about). But in a way that confused her, so it was harder to smell anything else so she couldn't rely on her nose for now.

Her ears pricked up as she tried to hear anything, footsteps preferably (to know if any was coming). Now that was one advantage as the floor was made of marble so your footsteps echoed throughout the whole palace. Good thing Misaki had light feet that were silent when walking on the marble, she had to go slow though as it was quite slippery.

She knew where the exit was but this time the door was too high for her to simply jump up and open it and there were guards directly outside the door. So Misaki was really looking for a window to jump out of.

Slowly she walked across the hall onto the right side looking anywhere for a window, she could go into the many doors displayed to her but she had no idea what was on the other side. She didn't want to risk it so carried on looking for windows, trying to sink into the shadows.

It had been 10 minutes and still there was no hope. 'Damn!' Misaki thought, 'does this palace have no windows!' She had just realised that the only light source was 6 great glass chandeliers which hung from the ceiling. Misaki was staring to panic and clearly getting quite angry as the slowness she was walking was adding to the fear of being found out.

She cursed to herself as this was almost hopeless. "Okay" she whispered to herself as she looked at the stair cases at the other end of the hall, "time to look a bit higher".

Misaki was debating with herself whether to change back into a human. She could still use her senses but would probably be be-headed for being in the palace if she was caught but then again if she was caught while she was a wolf… well that would probably be worse as she wouldn't be able to say anything without being found out. She was a Yurich and that would probably lead to... worse things.

Quickly making up her mind she changed back into a human, dressed as she was before.

She was bare-foot so again the marble floor did not echo her foot-step.

As she got close to the stairs she heard talking and quickly turned to hide but suddenly she lost her footing and fell to the ground making a big noise in the process.

Her head began to spin as fear poured into her heart, while still on the floor (on her tummy) she turned her head round back to the stairs as she saw two people at the top staring at her with wide eyes. Both maids, one with wavy, elbow-length brown hair with sharp green eyes and the other with straight, shoulder-length black hair with dark purple eyes (sorry for this description I didn't know how to put it into words xD).

Misaki felt her heart go in her mouth when she realised she had been caught. "What the devil, who are you!?" the brown haired maid asked with shock on her face suddenly she turned to the black haired maid and said "call the guards quickly! Alert the other maids, princess, prince and king!"

Misaki quickly got up trying to defend herself "wait! I'm not going to do anything I swear!" Misaki said desperately before any rash decisions were made.

The brown haired looked at Misaki and stared her a few seconds before again turning to the black haired "I said, CALL THE GUARDS!" she said almost shouting. "You!" pointing at Misaki "will wait right here, for your own sake I hope the prince and king are in a good mood."

'Fuck' Misaki thought, I'm screwed. She took a glance at were the maids were standing, red carpet lined the stairs… so much for hearing footsteps.


Well I hope you enjoyed this, has my writing gotten any worse? xD

Again sorry for the seriously late update, the next one should come out sooner as I have an idea! Hureka!

~Bye bye now