I tried to forget about the vampire over the next few days which would've been easier if he'd relocate himself from the castle. Every time I turned around I would find him lolly gagging around. What's worse nobody else seemed to pay him any attention, If my brothers hadn't seen him too I'd swear I'd gone mad. My brothers spent a majority of their time with him now playing sinister pranks on unsuspecting victims mainly myself and Moddie. Finally after two weeks something happened.
I was sitting in the throne room polishing my bow when Fargus, the town messenger; dashed in for an ordinance with the king. "Aye yer majesty there are dragons attacking the _ lands!" he bowed down panting. "HAHAHA there be no such thing as dragons Fargus" My father bellowed "sir, even so they require out aid immediately" He glanced up at my father. "Very well then" he stood up having an air of maturity about him. "Ready the troops we'll aid our allies against whatever the threat may be!" stomping down the steps from his throne I leaped to stand next to him "can I come?" I straightened up to look bigger. "Merida this is a job for soldiers not to mention what yer mother would do to me if I let you go" He rubbed the back of his head. Slowly the vampire Jack drifted down from wherever he'd been hiding "you should let her go" he whispered a small course of snowflakes melted against my father's face " well _ is one of your suitors" my father scratched his beard now "We'll say it was a recreational visit" and with that my father left me to stare at Jack. "What did you do to my father!?"
This was perfect a battle! NO doubt princess arrows over there would get knee deep in danger before the battle was over. Dangers of course meant she'd need rescuing and guess who was ready for duty, me of course. Having already boarded the ship we sat on some crates watching more cargo being loaded aboard. "Since we have some time to kill" I was so bored "why don't you tell me about that witch of yours?" "Go crawl back in your coffin and put a lid on it" she grumbled. "I'm not a vampire" I said rolling my eyes. "Whatever, there is nothing to say anyway I turned my mother and brothers into bears the end" she crossed her arms and looked intently at a notch in the wood on one of the crates. " I can top that " I said grinning she glanced at me "I helped the tooth fairy, sand man, Easter kangaroo, and Santa save the world from the boogey man" I said puffing out my chest in a boastful way. She turned to face me " kangaroo?" she questioned " okay he's a rabbit a freaking fat rabbit" I held out my arms to emphasize my point to my surprise she seemed to be taking me seriously " I take it you don't get along?" "We've had our differences" I shrugged "why are you really here?" she asked after a moment "I don't know, the moon told North to make me save you only now I'm not sure you really need saving" "isn't that the truth" she chuckled. The boat was preparing to leave harbor and men were rushing about untying lines. "I wish Manny would talk to me directly, he has a lot of explaining to do" I sighed "Is the moon Manny?" she asked "yeah" I answered "How do you know he really talks if he has never spoken to you?" "He spoke to me the day I died" I said with a grin "told me my name" Her jaw adjusted "your dead? I KNEW YOU WERE A VAMPIRE!" she seemed so smug. "only sort of… that was the day my human life ended and I became a guardian, the guardian of fun" I stood up as did she " what's so fun about dying?" she waved her arms about " I told you I'm not technically dead" and with that she pressed her ear to my chest, I froze (lol irony). "Well you do have a heartbeat" she said how could a princess be so rude and have such an oddly round face? She took a step back and looked me over with skeptic eyes as I brushed off the front of my hoodie "now that we've established that" I coughed only to be interrupted "Can you see you're your reflection?" she prodded me in the shoulder would she ever stop the vampire nonsense. I walked backwards to the edge of the boat "where are you going?" she asked not moving from her spot. "I'm going to speed up this trip" and with that I flipped over the side.
