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Chapter Two

Mission: Save the Princess

Riku turned his head when he heard the door to the garden slam open, the King was in haste. 'Adam,' Belle had gotten up when she heard the commotion.

'What's going on? Where's Amaranth,' Riku walked down to meet him with Sora close behind.

The crowd was beginning to worry and talk amongst themselves, but fell silent when the King spoke next, 'She's gone.'

'What,' Riku couldn't believe his ears.

Before the King could answer, Kairi interjected, 'Did she get cold feet?'

'No,' Belle quickly answered, 'she was looking forward to the wedding.'

'That's not it,' the King finally managed as he caught his breath and waved Sir Ryan over and he clarified, 'when I went to get her, her room was destroyed and she was gone.'

Riku didn't wait, he took off in the direction of her room. Sora was close behind him, but was stopped by a hand that reached out to grab him. 'Sora, what's going on,' Riku's father asked.

'Something happened to the Princess,' he answered and looked at Riku's disappearing figure. 'I am sorry, I have to go and help.'

Once Hina had seen the panic in King Adam's face, she had taken off to search of her Princess. However, what she found wasn't what she was looking for. The room that the Princess called her own was a complete disaster. 'Hina,' Riku had come to a complete halt in front of the doorway.

'I am sorry, I should have been here with her.'

'It's not your fault,' he walked into the room. Sora, Kairi, King Mickey and Master Sid had arrived to see what was going on.

'This is horrible,' Kairi gasped softly as she covered her mouth in shock.

'Riku,' Sid looked over at him, 'do you know anyone that is capable of doing this?'

'No,' he shook his head.

'Hmm,' he was silent for a moment before recalled a spell that might help, 'if everyone will step back.'

Riku looked over at him and did what he was told, as did everyone else. 'Now, this will only allow us to watch and see what happened nothing more.'

Everyone had their eyes turned to Hina and Riku, who were the two most reckless of the group when it came to Amaranth and her safety. 'Understood,' they answered after a short moment of gathering self-control.

Sid positioned himself in the center of the room and began to weave his magic. The room magically began to put itself together as time began to rewound itself and take them back to the moment that Hina left the room in a flutter.

Riku looked over at his giggling Princess and she looked beautiful in her wedding gown. When she turned away to look out the window he wanted to reach out to her and pull her into an embrace, but Sora stopped him and held him back. Riku nodded and continued to watch. She pulled away as the door began to open and she thought of greeting her father but froze. In his stead, there stood a dark tall figure hidden in a black hooded cloak. They exchanged words that they couldn't hear but could only guess and assume what they were. Shortly after that they began to fight, Amaranth placed a shield around herself to protect her from his magic and allow for physical combat but that was not what he wanted. When he attacked with a blizzara, another figure appeared behind her and that was when she was grabbed and knocked out. The image ended with them fleeing through a portal and King Adam crushing into the room.

Hina was fuming, when the cloak had fallen back and she had gotten a glimpse of who Amaranth's attacker was she knew. There was no misplacing the handsome features of the second Elfin Prince, considering that before she had met Aymaran she was almost forced into marrying him. 'I know who he is.'

They all turned towards her, 'Who?'

'He is the first brother of the Queen of Elves, his name is Levi and I can only guess as to whom his helper is but I think that it is the younger brother Rikhard.'

'Hina you will need to tell us all you know about him,' Sid stated.

'Right,' she agreed as King Adam and Belle joined them.

'It will be easier to go to the conference room,' the King informed them.

They agreed and excused themselves, while Belle stayed behind to look at what had happened. They arrived at the conference room and Hina waited a moment for them to settle down before she continued to speak. 'The Queen's brother was banished three years ago when he showed signs of corruption. He wanted to take over the Queen's throne and she would not allow it. Therefore, she sent forth her army to put a stop to his madness but he was too strong. That was when Aymaran appeared and promised her help as long as she was given a place to stay and solitude.'

'What happened after?'

'Aymaran did as she promised and helped banish Levi as well as help me,' she answered.

'Do you know where he was banished too,' Kairi asked.

'No, he was sent to isolation to a different world with Aymaran's powers.'

'The brother,' Riku's right eye began to twitch when he remembered the way he had grabbed Amaranth.

'Rikhard is under the control of Levi, I don't think that anything he does is of his free will.'

'I don't think that he wouldn't have a say in what he is doing,' Riku stated angrily.

'You don't understand the control that Levi has,' Hina told him.

'Fine I don't understand his control, but I want to understand the reason why he kidnapped Amaranth.'

'That I do not know,' she frowned sadly.

'What if he wants to get revenge on Aymaran and Amaranth being her,' Riku glared at Sora, 'in a sense,' he corrected, 'wants to destroy her.'

'No,' Sid shook his head.

'The Master has a point,' Mickey agreed with Sid. 'If he wanted to destroy Amaranth, he wouldn't have taken her with him.'

'Then,' Riku didn't want to believe that maybe something worse would happen to his princess.

'Hina, you said that Levi wants to take control of the Elfin Kingdom right?'

'Yes, but the Queen has united her forces against him and Aymaran taught her how to control and manipulate other powers so she could be stronger than him.'

'That's it, he wants to control Amaranth to gain control of the Elfin Kingdom,' Sora stated.

'If it were only that easy,' Sid sighed softly, 'Amaranth has already demonstrated that she wouldn't allow herself to be controlled.'

'That only leaves one option,' Mickey pointed out.

'What is it,' Riku could see the worry.

'They might be planning to extract her powers in order to gain the upper hand,' Mickey stated softly.

'They can't,' Hina jumped out of her chair. 'Levi gets a hold of that much power it's game over for the Elfin Kingdom.'

'That is why we must stop them,' Sid told them.

'Right,' Riku agreed. 'We have to save Amaranth and stop this maniac before it's too late.'

'Yeah,' Sora jumped up at the chance for one more adventure. 'I am going with you.'

'Are you sure,' Riku looked over at Kairi.

She smiled up at him softly as she touched her belly, 'The baby isn't due for a few more months and I know that Sora won't sit still knowing that you are looking for Amaranth on your own.'

'He won't be alone,' Hina stated as she got up.

'Thanks,' Riku told them.

'Hey what are brothers for,' Sora smiled as he placed his hand on Riku's shoulder.

'And you'll need me to teleport you to the Elfin Kingdom,' Hina meekly smiled.

'Alright, then we will gather again in thirty minutes so say your good-bye and gather what you think necessary.'

'Right,' they agreed.

'Mickey,' Sid looked down at his old friend.

'Sir.'

'We'll need to head back to the castle,' Sid stated. 'If Levi manages to remove all of Amaranth's powers we'll need away to get them back from him.'

'Sir,' Mickey nodded and jumped out of his chair.

Riku turned to the King before he left to get ready, 'Sir, I promise you that I will get Amaranth back.'

Adam studied Riku with his deep ocean colored orbs and nodded, 'I know, Son, just make sure to be safe.'

'Sir,' he concurred before he took off to prepare for his mission.

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Amaranth's head was throbbing in uncontrollable pain. In addition to the pain, her body felt weighted down by boulders. Opening her eyes just a bit caused her more pain, the light was too much for her to handle. She tried to shield her eyes from the light, but when she went to move her arm, she was stuck. She tried to move her other arm, but the same thing happened. With force of will, she tried to open her eyes and to her horror, she found that she was shackled down. Lifting her throbbing head to look down at her feet, she noticed the same. She was bond to a wooden table, by metal shackles.

'Don't even try,' she cocked her head towards the voice, but groaned in pain as her head started spinning and hurting even more.

Taking a moment to adjust and open her eyes again, she looked over at her captor, 'You, what do you want with me?'

'Everything,' he moved over to her side and took a seat on the empty space on the table.

'I have nothing to offer,' she glared into dark black orbs.

'I beg to differ,' he studied her beautiful features and couldn't believe that such a creature existed.

Amaranth stared daggers at him when he reached out with one of his hand to caress her cheek, 'Don't touch me,' she struggled to get away from him, but being chained down made it difficult.

'Hmm,' she had turned her face away from him. He didn't like it, so he grabbed her chin and turned her back to face him. 'I think that breaking you will be fun.'

Honey orbs widen, but at the same time harden because showing fear wasn't an option. 'You should leave her be.'

She allowed her orbs to gaze throughout the room in search of the voice that had spoken on her behalf. 'I am just asserting myself.'

'Do it after.'

'Humph, my brother, he's no fun,' his sharp features softened as they turned down cast and he ran one hand through his black hair in frustration and disappointment.

'You are the one that should stop with the delusion of claiming her,' the brother stated. 'We only need her for one reason.'

'You should listen to him,' his grip on her chin tightened but she continued her search for the mysterious stranger. When he moved into the light, her eyes grew and her breath caught in her chest.

'You shouldn't stare,' the man jerked her head further so she had no choice but to face him. However, she refused and forced her head to turn back to the other captor, who looked at her with familiar yet different eyes. 'Humph, I can't have you falling for the wrong brother, now can I.'

'Ahh,' she screamed as an electric current from his hand shot through her and began to consume her. 'Stop,' she cried out before she blacked out.

'Levi, did you really have to do that?'

'Of course, I can't have her fawning over you,' he looked down at the slumbering female.

'Whatever just make sure not to harm her any further. We need her alive for the ceremony or her powers we won't be able to extract.' Rikhard looked over at the female and frowned. Levi wasn't only going to break her, his desire for her would consume her and be her demise.

A/N: Chapter two is done and chapter three is underway. I hope that you guys are enjoying this story so far. I know that my creative writing spirit is flowing and taking me for a wild adventure this time, so I hope that you join me again in the next chapter. So until next time ^_^ please feel free to review.