Chapter two

(Not so) Royal Rescue

The man, who was named Julian, stopped outside the castle.

"You must go in there," he said, "and save the girl. To do it, you must go to the highest room of the tallest tower, and bring her back to me. It would be wise to put steal a set of guard armor. When you have the girl, try to escape. If they catch you, take this stone, raise it up, and say my name." He handed Alex a blue stone with strange markings on it, and it was glowing. Alex got out of the ship. There was a certain guard outside her room, and there were no others like him. Alex found himself flying up towards the guard. After a brief fist fight, Alex knocked out the guard. He put the helmet on his head, and the rest of the armor went onto him, leaving a pale colored alien in boxer shorts. Alex was about to shoot the wall, when he lost his balance and fell to the floor of the castle.

A few guards came to him,

"Are you alright?" they asked him

"I'm fine," said Alex, "but the fall has knocked the Princess' location out of my memory. Where is it?"

"She is in the tallest tower, at the top floor. Unfortunately, the elevator is broken, so you will have to take the long way. You'll figure it out; you are of the Mages, are you not?"

"I am a mage," said Alex. He began to walk to the threshold of the castle. The symbols of the signs were Greek to him. He continued onward.

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"LET ME OUT, LET ME OUT!" Gretchen was screaming, slamming her fists on the door. She did not like this one bit. Constantly, they kept asking her if she had found her regal tone or remembered her position, and she kept shooting them down. She was enraged that she was taken away from her friends. And Alex was probably dead. The thought that he tried to save her kept bouncing around in her giant brain.

Alex continued his search. He eventually found a staircase leading right up to the tower. He began to climb it. He was exhausted in his stuffy armor, but this was the only way he would find Gretchen without raising suspicion. He finally made it to the room.

A guard came into Gretchen's room, and she blew a fuse,

"NO I HAVEN'T FOUND MY REGAL TONE, NO I AM NOT THE PRINCESS, LEAVE ME THE **** ALONE!"

"Wait," said the guard, but she wouldn't hear it. She punched the guard in the chest and kicked it between the legs,

"Wait Gretchen," said the guard, in a high pitched, but computerized voice.

"How do you know my name?" she demanded. The guard took off his helmet, and under it was Alex!

"ALEX!" she asked. Alex grabbed her and jumped out the window, where a ship was waiting for them. He began to fly back, but the other guards had found out that he was not a real guard and had kidnapped the princess, thereby putting a bounty on his head. The guards were swarming the ship. Alex remembered the stone. He held it up and yelled,

"Julian!" He and Gretchen evaporated into metallic blue mist. The guards opened the ship, only to find two vacant seats. They saw two blue streaks flying across space. What they thought were two meteorites were actually Gretchen and Alex, as they returned to Julian's cell.

A ritual had to be preform to ensure Gretchen would never be fooled by the Mages. Julian set out a bowl and a spell book. He needed dust, mud, a leaf, and a lock of hair from a beautiful girl. He snipped of a lock of Gretchen's silky brown hair. She was made to drink it. The fumes it was giving off were enough to make her dizzy, but neither Alex nor Julian seemed to be effected. She put a drop to her lips. It tasted like eggs, not in the good way. She swigged it down as fast as she could bear. Her stomach felt like it was going to explode. Her head was hurting, and eyes watering. She found it impossible to hold consciousness, and she passed out.

She woke up a few hours later.

"You owe your life to Alex," he said to her, "for if not for him; you would have become a witch and destroyed the Earth. King Drake's plot has failed, and you have saved Earth, now all that remains is for you to go home."

Going home isn't going to be easy. They must elude King Drake to do it, that's not going to be easy. Gretchen and Alex have thwarted the king's plot, but they might not live to regret it.