Third chapter. Please R&R Thank you :)
Sam was huddled on the wooden cot trying to sleep. She heard noises Then an obnoxious voice outside the "door" of her room. "Hello little princess." She instantly knew who it must be. Roscoe's sister.
"I'm Ryba." "Nice to meet you Ryba." "Whatever." Then Ryba came into Samantha's view. She was a beautiful dark purple dragon. And the way she was acting proved that she know exactly how pretty she was.
Ryba walked so close to Sam that she could have touched her. Then Ryba quickly stretched out her neck and breathed a stream of fire. Samantha gasped and jumped back. Ryba smiled a toothy smile like Roscoe's, except it was an evil smile. Ryba rolled her eyes in a bored manner and walked out of the room.
Then she heard a shuffling outside of the room. She sat straight up listening. "Princess?" She let out a sigh of relief. Thank goodness. It was just Roscoe. "Please call me Sam." "Okay... Sam." The red dragon walked into her view. "I thought you might be cold. Here's a blanket."
Sam didn't get it. She thought evil dragons children were evil too. "Thank you Roscoe." She took the light weight blanket and laid it on the wooden cot. "Roscoe? Could I ask you a question?" "I guess." "Why is it that your dad and sister seem so mean but you're nice? I thought evil dragons had evil children." "My mother wasn't evil. She didn't know that my father was evil until she married him. I Haven't decided whether or not to be good or evil." "Oh." Roscoe looked at Sam shivering in the cold. Even with the blanket. He looked at the little hollow that would work as a fire place. He smiled at his idea and flew off into the night sky. Sam wondered what he was doing but she didn't have to wait long, because he soon came back, with a claw full of wood. He put it in the little hollow and then blew on it.
The fire was so warm. "Thank you Roscoe." Roscoe smiled a toothy grin. He liked making her happy. He turned and walked out of the little room.
Sam turned to the fire and thought. Where was Jake? Was Wild One okay? Was Zared going to eat her? She shuddered at that thought. No way did she want to get eaten by a dragon. Sam looked around the little area. She decided to explore it. She picked up a torch that was by the door and lit it in the flames of the fire. She looked around. She hadn't been able to see much except the wooden cot before, but now she saw that the room was bigger than she had thought. She saw a suit of armor in one corner. She had always liked the knight's armor, so she went over by it. To her surprise she saw a small, but sharp throwing knife. She had taken some knife throwing lessons until her father had found out and stopped her. Then she realized that she was surrounded with weapons. Weapons from Zared's past lunches probably. She took a piece of wood that wasn't in the fire place and began carving it with a dagger she had found. She had also taken carving lessons until her father found out and put a stop to it. Before to long a unicorn was formed. She didn't know how she had done it. She had only seen one picture of a unicorn. But she didn't remember where she had seen it. It had been a beautiful majestic white one, that looked as if he could take down any evil thing. She smiled at the unicorn she had carved and then put it in another hollow in the cave wall. Her eye lids were drooping. She snuffed the torch and put it back in the holder by the door. Then she crawled over to the wooden cot that now held a blanket and went to sleep.
At the castle
"King Wren?" Sir Jakob had found out more about Zared from the records books. "King Wren?" "Yes Sir Jakob?" "I have found out more information about Zared." "On how he can be killed?" Sir Jakob nodded. "How? I would do anything to get my little girl back." "You would need to climb the Golden mountain, ten miles away. Once you have done that you would have to journey even further up. Once you are so far up that you can't see anything besides clouds for miles and miles you must find the house of the wizard Luriana." "And the wizard will give me what I need?" Sir Jakob shook his head. "She will give you instructions on how to get to what you need and how to use it." "Do you think I could do it?" Sir Jakob looked at the king. He couldn't really be serious. He was. "No your majesty. We cannot let you go." "And why not!" "If you died we would have no hope. But if you stayed here and sent me in your place we would have a chance and if I died we would still have you as our great king."
The king nodded. "Go prepare for your journey Sir Jakob. Take your greatest weapons." Sir Jakob nodded.
On the way to the cottage that he shared with his whole family he thought.
Why did I have to let her go riding yesterday? She got kidnapped by the worst of dragons because he had let her go riding. Now she was going to get eaten unless he completed this quest. He didn't want to think about Princess Sam getting eaten. It made him want to puke.
He marched into the cottage where his oldest brother, Sir Kit, was polishing his sword. Sir Jakob marched over to the small room where his family kept their weapons, and got the family sword.
It was a long sword with a golden hilt, and a leather scabbard. "Jake, we aren't to use the family sword unless we are going on quests." "I am going on a quest." "Oh to where?" "The Golden Mountain." "And what are you going to do on the Golden Mountain?" "Find the wizard Luriana." "Why?" "To save the princess." Kit nodded to show he understood.
Sir Jakob was ready to go. He had a nap sack with bread and cheese, two canteens full of water, the family sword at his side, and his strongest horse, Witch. He told his family good bye and rode off toward the Golden Mountain.
Near Zared's lair
The Phantom could smell the dragons. He smelled a prissy stuck up female dragon, a male dragon with a good heart, Zared, and the princess. The Phantom smelled the fire in Sam's room, and the shavings from the unicorn she had carved. He lifted his head and neighed. Then walking towards the cave he touched his horn to the wall of it. An opening appeared. He calmly walked inside the opening. Into Princess Sam's room. Her head jerked up. She gasped. The Phantom touched his horn to the ground and words came out. Princess Samantha, I knew your mother. I will get you safely home soon.
Samantha gasped. "You are the unicorn I saw long ago!" The look on The Phantom's face said yes he was, and that she should stay silent.
He walked over right next to Samantha and put his head over her shoulder, like he was hugging her. Then without warning, the beautiful unicorn disappeared. But the hope he had brought her about getting away from Zared was still there.
