Chapter 3

OH crap ,I overslept again ! its been 3 weeks since I meet robin and I have seen him every other day .He has become my best and only friend I had there .i finally convinced Maria that he was a good person but he just liked the woods .Now she inspected I fancied him .dumb little sister .

I was in the woods with Robin, I was looking at the clouds making a shapes out of them .

"See that one there , " I asked robin who was lying next to me

"uh-huh," I heard him say

"I think I looks like a dragon," I say and he scoffs

"No way is that a dragon , it's a rabbit ,"

"That is so a dragon ,"

"Rabbit "

"No dragon "

"Rabbit,"

"Dragon,"

"Rabbit,"

"Dragon,"

"Rabbit,"

"Dragon,"

"Rabbit,"

"Dragon,"

"look at us were acting like children ," I say sitting up and looking and him as he leans against a tree, it was a huge trees that had the moon fruit growing on it , they were good , and now were my favorite fruit .i smile at the way he bits his nail without realizing it .He rolls his eyes at my comment .

"yes but we will always be kids at heart ," he says and winks .

"that's just a clever way of saying we're immature," I say to the boy that acts like he's 8 buts really 17 but I act like that too but I'm 16 but 17 next season .

"maybe so ," he says and starts to tickle me .

I laughed at the memory .Now that he was in my life I cant image without him

I was wearing a simple purple almost white dress that had flowers on the waist and the chest.

I ran down the stairs just in time to see Maria ,speak of the devil , walk past a door and stare into it puzzled .

"Maria, what are you doing ,"I ask and she jumps

"no ones playing the piano and its playing ," she said walking to it .After a minute she sits down and looks at the keys before playing a small side melody to match the ghost's. I smile thinking of the time when Hermione tried to teach me to play but I just ended up banging on the keys and laughing with Ron and harry as she huffed and went to the library. I giggled at the memory. I heard I sharp intake of breath and looked over my shoulder to see uncle positively fuming. After a moment he looked at me and then Maria and said something that terrified me .

"Digweed, bring me my whip," he said and stormed out the room

When I woke up it was very late and the moon wand was still in my hand ,but intend of pain I felt power and genuine joy . Soon my smile faltered when I thought of Maria , I have to find her . I put the wand in the case with a belt ,so I wouldn't have to hold it all the time. I found the wand case in next to the moon wand but as I looked closer at the belt it had my name on it , that's creepily cool . After I put on the belt with the moon wand safely in it , I pulled out my normale wand and crept up the stairs by the waterfall .when I reached the top I realized that Moonacre was just a few steps away and good thing because I was exasted .I ran inside to see uncle and Mrs. Heliotrope pacing and ranting about me . Well it was just uncle and Mrs. Heliotrope was just muttering things . when they laid their eyes on me , they widen at my state of dress .
"annabelle, where are your close ? it one thing for maria to come in like this but a lady of your age , ahh ," Mrs. Heliotrope said and fainted

" maria's here! Where ?" I asked and ran up the stairs to our rooms ,but instead of going to mine I went to hers .I knocked on the door but stopped because I herd light snoring on the other side .Maria needs her sleep and so do I , so I went back to my room and fell asleep

The next mornig I woke to being shaking by maria , I slowly opened my eyes ,

"Annabelle , wake up lovedays here , she brought us dresses from the 1st moon princess ," she said and I shoot up smiling . I looked at what she was wearing its was gorgeous. I was handed a dress that looked like Maria's except mine was dark royal blue not dark red , a heart shaped cheast cut instead of square , the train wasn't as long , and it had a place for my wand(s) . Loveday also did my hair in a half up and down style held by 2 braids that got together in the back . ( A/Nlike lucy's hair in price Caspian)

" thank you loveday ," I said and hugged her and she laughed as maria twirled

"fits you two like a glove ," she said

"oh Loveday this is hopeless ," maria said and sat down with a frown

"what ," she said

"im as clouse as ever to finding the pearls , Annabelle's already found the wand ," she said

"they have to be here somewhere ," I said "hidden ."

" come on come with me ," maria said tugging on me and Lovedays hands

"where ," she asked and maria pointed to the door "downstairs , no no no no no ,"

She eventully cavend and we went downstairs and onto the piano room . As maria dn loveday started to play I felt left out so I , sat on the window seat and stared at the forest , thinking of my times with robin

"hey robin ," I asked

"yes ," he replied

"where are we going ," I ask and try to take his hands pff my eyes

"you'll see just hold on ," he said and laughed

"fine ,' I grumbled , and after a few falls robin took his hands off and I opened my eyes . I saw the cutest group of puppies that were playing or sleeping next to their mom and dad .

"awww ," I said

"I knew you would like it ," he said "cpome on lets play with them ,"

We spend that whole day playing with those puppies and even named them .

"he broke my heart ," said loveday sadly , whoa you zone out for 5 minutes .

"who ," I ask but my question remained unanswered , I guess ill ask maria later

"I think you broke his heart too, " maria said to Loveday

"but he let me be lost forever ," she said almost crying

"I must have been quite a shock for him , maybe if you waited for him to calm down or apologize ," maria said

"OH ME apologize ," she said and got up and mutterd " you don't understand do you ,"

"im starting to understand one thing the real cures on this valley is pride ," maria said and I smiled at her wit

"ill second that ," I said and she smiled at me and I grabbed her hand and smiled

"lets go make a plan about house pearls ," I said and lead her up the stairs .When we reached the top we saw digweed taking down the portrait of the moon princess . It would be a whole lot easier if the prorate was magical like the ones in my world and Hogwarts , we could just ask where she put the perls .

"digweed stop ," I said as digweed got confused

"but that be the masters wishes ,"he said and I saw maria look at the painting in shock , what is it now.

"digweed don't move a musle ," she said and ran down the stairs but I didn't bother to follow . I looked over to see that digweed literally hadn't moved a muscle, soon maria ran up the staires with maraduke and our beloved nanny

"ah , there she is every time a new moon princess arrives ,so does this picture ," said maraduke

"but look at it , " she said and looked at digweed " um digweed you can move now ,"

" oh thank you miss ," he said looking relieved and walked next to mrs. After a few moments of us just looking at the painting trying with all our might to see something magical but alas I didn't see anything

" didn't you see ?," asked maria and I shook my head no .

"you see there she's showing us where the pearls are , she took them ," maria said and I crocked my head to the side to see if it would help , not at all .

"maria , are you tell us that the moonprincess herself took the moon pearls ," he asked

"yes , and shes showing me wher she hide them ," said maria

"well where ," I ask at the same time as maraduke .

"in a tree somewhere in the forest ," she said , that helps so much ,note my sarcasm.
" well that helps ," he said

"no I saw what was nearby. I think I would know it if I saw it again ," she said .

"hmm ," he said looking at me .Oh no I was NOT under any circumstances asking for robins help !

"absolutely not ," I said firmly bnut I knew I had to .

"what ,' asked maria

"there is only one person who walked the woods his whole life , its in his blood ," maraduke said and Maria thought in her funny looking thinking face before it went away and was replaced with disgust

"robin ," she ask and maraduke nods

"impossible ! hes an arogont so and so and you know what he did to Annabelle and I never want to see him again ," she said and everntully we give in and make a plan to catch him in a trap while digweed is getting our horse .After mounting them I give digweed pur lettewrs to loveday and uncle . I laugh at maraduke's goodbye . I was about to kick off when Mrs. Heliotrope ran outside .

"Mrs. Heliotrope we have to go and theirs nothing you can do to stop us ," I said and she shakes her head

"no , no I know you two have to do this and Im starting to understand . im just saying I belive in you two ," she said and kissed our foreheads . As we ride off into the woods I see luna flewing to my window with a letter . I have motivation to come back now .

When we enter the woods we find where the trap were seriana was and I put her in it and wave my wand at the rope for it to make a trape . I wave for maria to hide behind a a while I got bored and sat down and started counting to a million . When I hear footsteps on the dry fallen leaves I smile and hope my magic dosnt fail me . I look up and smile to see its robin .

" ah princess how nice of you to give yourself up , and I see you've forund the moon wand ," he said and smirked .

"MARIA NOW," I said once he got into position , he looked consused then he was up in the air boicing around like an idiot . I see his hat has fallen on the ground so I pick it up and plop it on my head to get him mad ,becaujs I rember he told me only he can wear that hat .

"the great trapper , trapped," maria said smugly and let serene out of her cadge .

"ironic huh Maria ," I said and laughed and he got madder

"LET ME DOWN YOU LITTLE WITCH ," he yelled .

"certainly , maria will you do the honners , " I ask and she smiles .

"of course ," she goes to cut it but he catches on .

"WAIT NO," he yelled

"no ?," I asked

"ow my foot ," he said in pain , and I stared to feel bad .

"maria maybe we should ," I said quitly and she takes her rabit out of its cage and lets it go .

" please ," he said begging

"maria , hes in pain we should be the bigger person ," I mumble but I reamber thee plan and start to walk away .

"please Annabelle , this really hurts . I can feel my head swealling ," he said if possible with even more plead in his tone .

"it was like that before actually ," I said and glared at the boy who broke my trust .

" I will let you down if you agree to do something ," said maria

"what ," he said annoyed

"if you promise to listen ," I said

"say you promis ," said my darling sister .

"just say it ," I said harshly

"I promis , alright you bet me let me down " he said and rolled his eyes, and Maria giggled and cut the rope and you could hear the thud from were I was .

"that looked like it hurt ," I said with his hat still on my head .

"that look like it hurt ," he said in a high pitched voice . I herd loud barking and I laughed at robins face , after he gerd me laugh his face turned to me and glared seeing his hat .

"What about him ," he ask

"you're a de noir he very well might hurt you ," maria ask . He picked up his knife and took his hat off my head and sat on a log , he rolled his eyes and turned around .

"I'm listing ," he said and I rolled my eyes and pushed maria to tell the story .It took forever and I was laying down on wrolf half asleep when the finished . After we asked for his help , he looked at us like we were crazy.

"bye ," he said ,

"robin you have to help us ," maria said like she was about to cry

"I promised I would listen and I did ,"

"robin you have to help us , you at least own it to my sister " maria said like she was about to cry this time . He turned to look at me and grabbed my arms and shook my roughly .

"you are a merriweither , I was never your friends ," he sid but let me go after wrolf growled at me .

"you fooled me ," I said and a tear rolled down my cheek .

"great now I have to kill you ," he said and was that tears in his eyes of course not .i whipped out my wand and stepped in front of Maria .

"kill us and the whole valley dies with us ," I said

" on the 5000 moon and that's tonight ," maria added and she grabbed me and started walking awy to look for the tree .

"im still listing ," he said as we walked away

"no more games this time robin ," maria asked

"no more fake friendships ?," I asked

"no "

"or trying to kidnap us ," maria asked

"no , I promise ," he said

"come on then ," said maria walking ahead of us . As we walked I tried not concentrate on the fact that we were with the boy who was my friend but betrayed me , alone in the forest .He could be leading us to our deaths for all I knew. When robin pulled put one of Marias ribbons and tiyed it to a branch .

"what were you doing ," I asked

" a false trail ," he said and didn't roll his eyes or anything .

"what were you doing with one of my ribbins ," maria asked ,and robin rolled his eyes .

"so tell me about this hiding place ," he said looking at wrolf runnig around .

"it's a tree but its very distinctive it has big massive roots surrounding a dark hollow ," she said and was going to say more but robin cut her off .

"I know where that is ," he said and I hug him out of graditude .

"thank you ," I said and he pulls away and rolls his eyes at me .

"lets say I do decide to help and lets say we do find the pearls , what then ?," he ask

"you have a point ," I said looking at maria .

"I supposes we throw the pearls go back into the sea and –" maria said but was cut off again

"you do know my fathers coming after you two right ," he said

"I guess its just a matter of us finding the pearls before he finds us ," I said smirking .

"hmm ," he said and turned away and walk ahead of us , but maria still looked confused as we walked.

" but what dose the ultimate sacrifice and guilt forgiven mean ," she asked me quietly .Oh I wasn't looking forward to explaining this .

"it means the two families have to forgive each other and that one of us has to die so that the valley will be protected will old magic ," I said and marias eyes widen .

"we have to die ," she asked me

"not you me , your too young ," I said and she looked down " you have more to live for ,"

"but –" maria started

"no Maria theirs isn't any other way , its me or the whole valley ," I said and she whip a few tears and nodded and hugged me . and I walk ahead to think a bit . I looked ahead and saw Maria and robin talking and they were clouse. I felt my heart break even more when I saw them talking like best friends or maybe something more . I think the worst thing about having a broken hart is that youll never feel the same way you felt before . Sure you can laught and be happy but you'll always have mental scars and a feeling of hopelessness around you.

"it'll all be over soon " I whispered . I guess ut will all be for the best when I give the ultimate sacrifice . Everything will be happy and good again and it will just moke me when maria and robin get closer . Maria would be good for him I guess she is a breath of fresh air , and she is human unlike me . I was good enough for robin im just a nasty ,vile and evil witch like all the fairytales say , the witch never gets the happy ending everyone knows that .

"Annabelle , are you okay ," I heard someone next to me ask .

"yeah why ," I said but notice my voice is my crying voice . I look up to see Maria chasing after wrolf and robin looking down at me concerned .

" you know I am sorry ," he said " you were the clousest thing I had to a best friend ,"

"what about your little group that you the ring leader of ," I ask

" well they all have best friends already and don't really share , but we clouse too ,"

"oh ," I said and whipped and tears .

"do you forgive me ," he ask

"I don't think I can, you broke my heart ," I said and left him there but I didn't hear him come after me . I caught up with maira and she looks worried .

"wrolf ," she calls but he dosnt come , I senced danger .

"maria get behind me ," I tell her and get in fighting position , and look around and hear an eco of a bark , wrolfs bark .

"wrolf ," maria whimpers .

"WROLF ," she yells and runs after him leaving me by myself

"robin ," I ask and somebody grabs me from behind and I hid my wand in my sleave .

" let me go ," I try to say but a hand was over my mouth , I was carried thourgh the woods and I saw robin and his dad talking and some of their clan taungting wrolf as he tries to get out a hole

"WROLF ," I yell and all eyes are fixed on me .

"oh look its our little moon princess , its time to end this once and for all ," said robins father taking out a knife , and slowly advancing to me . I struggle to get out of the mens grip but eventully I get free and I point my wand in the air and yell

"acciofireblot ,"I yell but start to get worried because it isn't coming fast enough .

"oh your little spell didn't work ," he whisperd tauntingly in my ear .

"Annabelle run ," robin yells. I see my firebolt over the horizon I just have to grab it , but as I go to grab it robins dad trys to stab me in the heart but got my arm , making me fall to the ground broom and wand still in hand . I looked at my arm and whince its so deep I can see a bit of bone . I look up and see robins father slowly walking to me he bends down and smiles evilly before stabbing me but I roll away and grab my broom . I mounit my broom and robin tells me he'll catdh up later andto find maria , I nod my head and flew up and to where I last saw Maria. I find her but see that robins father is already there . he has her in a head lock and she is screaming .I flew to the ground and pull up at the last second before jumping off . im about to break out a can of whoop-ass .

"LEAVE HER ALONE ," I yell at him and he sneers . then a gun gunshot gose off , no !

"or youll do what ," he sneers and maria bits his hand and grabs mine and I whince as she grabs my arm that was now coverd in blood , she looks down and gasp and runs into someone .Making me fall down cradling my arm .

"HOW COULD YOU BETRAY ME LIKE THAT , " She yelled and pushed robin but he whispered something to her before running to his dad ,putting a knife to his throat .When robin did this his dads eyes widened in shock .

"I will not let you take their life ," he said and his father sneered

"put the knife down boy ," he growled

"father please , you have to listen to what they have to say ," robin said and I tried to stop the blood flow but it was getting worse , I was starting to feel light headed .

"traitor , you are nothing to me now " his father growled and robin spun around and picked me up and told maria to run .

"ILL KNOW WHERE TO FIND YOU ," he yelled to our retreating backs .

" Annabelle , are you okay ," he asked me as he ran with me in his arms

"I feel really light headed and my arms hurt really bad ," I whisper and buried my head in his jacket .

"MOVE MARIA THERE RIGHT BEHIND US ," he yelled and ran faster until we got to the tree and he sled down with me still in his arms .

"I think I can walk now robin ," I said

"you sure , you've lost a lot of blood ," he said unsure whietither to let me walk or not ,

"yeah ," I said and followed maria .

"oh look at this ," Maria whispered pointing to a door .she pushed it open and we walked into a small living space but roots have grown over everything . I started looking and haven't found anything .

"were are they maria" wounderd aloude ,

"look maria , like the ones in our bedrooms ," I say pointing to a hours . she walks over and pulls and out ravels a hidden exit , robin drops down to see were it leads and I say a quick spell to heal my arm , it burns for a second but im still a little weak but its healed . I look back o see maria holing the pearls , smiling.

"the pearls ," said robin but our joyful moment was ruined by some of the de noir clan , robin runs to lock the door but it wont hold for long . I run to the other exit ans start to crawl I only faintly hear the door close. I could barly see my hand in frount of my face

"its dark in here," whispers robin and I roll my eyes

"really because , I can everything in vivid color ," I say sarcasticly , and he smiles

"I see your feeling better," he said

"moon pearls please we need your help . show us the way ," I hear maira say ffrom far ahead of us and the moon pearls lights up and somehow maria knows where to go.i hear a thud and look to see robin holding his head .

"smooth robin ," I say laughing

"well not all of us are shourt like you ," hje mutters

"im not short ," I say

"oh yeah you're the tallest person I know ," he says rolling his eyes

"you two shhh ," maria sayd to us harshly and I hold up my hands in surrender as she walks a little faster . I feel robins eyes on my back and I turn around and smile . I wait for his to be next to me and I kiss his cheek , and blush .

"what was that for ," he said touching his cheek " I though you hated me "

"it was for not leaving me behind , and I don't hate you ," I whisper so maria doesn't hear

"but I though that you didn't forgive me because I broke your heart or something ," he whisperd

"you did but I forgive you ," I said and smiled up at him and felt him grab my hand and squeses it ,but doesn't let go .

Im going to miss all this when I sacrifice myself , robin and my friends and family . I haven't even had kids or gotten married yet .i know I have to though , but my life was finaaly turning around and I wish one of us didn't have to die .

"we're lost ," robin said impatiently but we ignore him .

" maria ,' he says again , and unintally squishes my hand but I don't mind .

"robin , Annabelle hurry up ," she says and then gasped.

"don't you see shes showing us the way ," maria says and runs out a door that was overlooked .

"uncle stop ," I yell seeing him and robins father fighting .

"father , look we found the pearls , and Maria nodded and pushed ou the pearls .

"GIVE ME THE PEARLS GIRL ," de noir yells.

"thouse damn pearls , they've brought us nothing but heart ack .

"no uncle , it is not the pearls but the greed in our hearts that bring us this misery ," maria says , kind of like yoda .

"stop father ," I hear lovedays voice from the entrance , we all turn to look at her .

"why is there so much hatred in your heart ," loveday says

"my daughter ,"

"don't you want to be freed of this darkness imprisoning you ," loveday ask her father .

"is is he ," he replied pointing to my uncle .Love day grabs their hands and pulls uncles and they join hands and she grabs the pearls and puts them on both of their hands so if one pulls away they will fall.

"look the 5,000 moon , the cures is comeing and is you can sacrifice your pride , then we can save us , the whole valley ," maria said

"after you ," said juncle

"no, after you ," says cour de noir , and maria pushes down their hands and grabs the pearls with discust and grabs my hand away from robins .

"we must do this ourselves ," she said and walked to the cliff side . I was afraid of hights ! After I put away my fears I hold up the moon wand and the same time as maria .

"at the 5000 moon , I Maria Merryweather ," she stares

" and I Annabelle Merryweather remove the cures from the valley that darkens this valley ," I continue

"take back what is yours ,' she yells and we throw the wand and the pealrs into the sea but they come flying back to me .

"maria , you know what has to happen now ," I say and she nods and hugs me trying to hold back tears . " rember I love you and tell everyone the same ," I tell her and she noods and steps back and walks to uncle .i brake the strand of perals and throw them and the wand but the just attach themselves to my dress .That was my last hope , I take a step clouser to the edge look back and meet everyone's eyes , but when my eyes lkand on robin's , I wish this woulddn't have to happen , but wishing wasn't a possibility in this case .i walk as clouse to the edege without falling off and jump to the waiting seas below me . I hear my family ( friends too ) yelling , and runnig to the edge.

I whip the pearls off my dress and the fall to the oceane floor and I point the wand up and say with the only air I had .

"i wish the cures was over , by merlin I use the life wish ," I say using the oldest and most unused magic of all , the life wish . The life wish was something that with all ytour heart and energy you had to use but it was still a 50 50 chance .i felt my lungs begging for air as I blacked out . I fwlt my soul bewing ripped away from my bodie . I had finally givin up and I let my soul leave my bodie .

Ill miss you all

I felt myself being shaken, I was really cold. I also felt water falling on my face and I heard sobbing in the background .

"Annabelle please wake up ," said a male voice and I heard maira sobbing

"its all my fault I should have done it instead ," she said inbetween sobs. I slowly open my eyes and see a bunch of bleary figures , I clouse my eyes again from not having a drop of energy left in me . I felt my bodie being picked up in a gental hug

"oh thank god ," I heard robin say . I open my eyes to see im in robins lap and every one was staring at me .

"what happened and why am I so tired ," I mutter and mairea hugs me .

"we saved the valley , but you missed the unicorn and wrolf but hes a lion now ," maria said grinning and explained as I regained my energy . When I was well enough to stand and put my weight on uncle , who turned out to be a sweet guy , I turned to robin and grinned .

"were you worried robin ," I ask and he rolls his eyes and says .

"no , anyone could havce done that ," he mutter but was obviously lying , earnig him a smack upside the head from loveday.

"you were almost as bad as maria ," she said s and we both blush .i look over to see uncle hugging love day .

" please forgive my stubborn pride ," he said and kneeld down on one knee " loveday will –"

He started but was cut off by one of the men that were chasing us earlier

"I shall finsh them now ," he said pointing a gun at me and anther at maria but our beloved yet strange nanny came behind him and started beating him with a old umbrella skeleonten eventully making him run away .

"that would be the search party sir ," digweed said looking at the de noirs .

"girls im here , im here to save you ," she said runnig to us with open arms with were filled in a milisecound .

"thank you ," we say huggin her .

"oh is there to be a wedding ,
" she ask cutting of uncle yet again and loveday looks down at uncle . Digweed walked over to her and muttered something and pointed to him and after a few unreaconisble sounds , they were holding hands . I felt my hand being with the perfect match , and I look up to see robin grinning at me , I reasted my head on his shoulder grinnig like a fool .

"well there we are then nothing to be done ," uncle said and I grabbed robins hat and put it on my head , making him laugh . This is one of the best mouiments ever . im making a file in my brain for it to be placed in .