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Stitches 3

It slowly dawned on Glitch what was going on. It was the Queen standing in front of him and she was in trouble. He tried to get up, but one of the long coats had a shock stick which didn't hesitate to use on Glitch. Glitches tried a second time but the shock surging threw him made his muscles spasm and go limp, he didn't have the strength to try again. He saw at thankfully before he blacked out that DG was by the Queen's side.

The Queen stood proud even as the tears filled her eyes. Why was it that ever since the witch came into their lives no matter what her intentions the ones she loved always got hurt.

"The Witch is gone." She said in her regal voice.

The huge men that surrounded her and her daughter didn't seem fazed by the news. "Did you hear me, The Sorceress Azkadellia is gone. She no longer commands you. I am the Queen you do as I say now stop and surrender yourselves." Some of the men looked around unsure of what to do, others looked just as bloodthirsty as before the Queen had spoke.

DG squeezed her mother's arm then grabbed her hand. "She said stop!" With those words a burst of brilliant light came from DG and seemed to stun the group of long coats surrounding them and the long coats still fighting with the rebels.

Cain looked around as the long coat he'd been fighting to get to DG and the Queen seemed to get dizzy and fall over with all the other long coats. "Nice DG"

DG looked around at what she'd done. "Well done dear." The Queen hugged DG. "There's no way I could have done that with out you."

"Jeb get some of your men to start tying these long coats up. Line them up against the wall." Cain ordered. "Are you ladies alright, what are you doing out here?" Cain stepped over and around the bodies on the ground.

The Queen didn't hear the question she'd left DG's side and knelt down by an unconscious Glitch.

"She wanted to see Ambrose." DG said her voice full of concern.

"Does she know?" Cain alluded to the fact that Ambrose was no longer Ambrose.

"I told her she said she it didn't matter, he was family." DG looked over at Cain who seemed to be breathing heavier than normal. And his usually stony face was instead grimaced.

"Are you alright?" DG touched his arm and he flinched away from her.

"I'm fine. Let's go check on them." He walked towards the Queen and Glitch ignoring his own pain and her concern.

"If the witch is gone the monkeys should be gone." Az said in a hushed voice to her father.

"Yes dear but your mother said we should make sure just incase." Ahamo spoke in an equally hushed tone, in attempt to comfort his traumatized daughter and to not be heard by henchmen who might be lurking in the castle.

"Why should we look for them?" Az seemed to not be able to reason.

"The monkeys were connected to the witch. If we find them we might be able to tell if she's gone for good." Ahamo explained.

Az couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching her; it was making the hair on the back of her neck stand up. She wished all the monkeys were dead. She wanted this all to be over. She wanted to get out of the heavy chain male she was wearing. She wanted to curl up in her bed and make everyone leave her alone. She was scared and she wanted to cry.

In all their searching for any flying monkey's they forgot to look behind them.

"Ambrose?" The Queen knelt down and role Glitch over onto his back. "Wake up." She said gently slapping at his thin hand. Cain came and stood behind her. DG knelt down on his other side.

"Glitch wake up." DG touched his shoulder. Glitch started to cough.

"Man I hate those shock sticks." He groaned and turned over onto his side and coughed a bit more. Opening his eyes he looked up into lavender ones.

"Do you know me?" The Queen asked.

"Have we met before?" Glitch looked at her questioningly.

"Yes but it's been quite sometime since we last saw one another." The Queen smiled softly and Glitch tried to return her smile even with questions in his eyes.

"Are we friends?"

"yes very close friends. I confided in you all my secrets." Glitch stared up at her beautiful eyes.

"Oh." Glitch started to look frustrated.

Cain reached down and took Glitches arm. "Come on buddy lets get you up." Cain pulled the not surprisingly light Glitch to his feet. When Glitch seemed to sway a bit so Cain rapped Glitches arm around his neck. "I'm going to take him inside."

DG helped her mother up off the ground. The Queen wiped tears from her lavender eyes. "I'm sorry Mom."

"There's nothing to be sorry for, you warned me. It was just a bit of a shock is all."

"I know" DG put he arm around her mother. "Lets go see if we can help out."

Cain sat Glitch down in a chair inside the doorway. He sag. "You going to be alright buddy?" the Tin man asked.

"Yeah, yeah I just feel kinda boneless." Glitch looked up weakly.

"Just relax you'll feel better soon." Cain started to go back outside to help with tying up the long coats when Az and Ahamo came around the corner.

"Have you seen the Queen we can't seem to find her?" Ahamo asked the tin man. "We didn't find any monkeys."

"I..I…" Glitch started from his seat behind Cain. "I think they found you." The other three turned to look and as they did. Three monkeys swooped down off the ceiling and grabbed Az by the arms and her hair.

The tramatized young woman screamed. Her father and Cain try to hold onto her but the monkeys were strong pulling her up into the air and back down the hall. Neither man could keep hole of her. They ran down the hallway trying not to loose sight of the girl.

Glitch tried to follow but after getting out of the chair his legs wobbled to much for him to stay up right and he dropped to the ground like a rag doll.

"Glitch are you alright?" DG had come in the castle with the Queen to find Glitch spralled on the floor.

"they took her." He said in a panic.

"Took who? What?" DG asked.

"The girl…the witch…Azkadellia, The monkeys took Azkadellia." He pointed down the hallway. DG Followed his gazed, looked at him and her mother and then followed after Cain and Ahamo.