Chapter 4: So It Begins
Diana had had enough. It had been three days since Hal had arrived and it had been AWFUL. He was such a flirter and wasn't interested in anything but her looks. How is Keystone thriving with this guy in charge? He talked to her as if she didn't have a brain and she did. So she decided to head out to the gardens after dinner. She needed a break from all of the glamour and such. She was wearing her crown. It was golden and the point went down and on it in the middle was ruby shaped like a star.
Diana went to the rose garden while the sun was setting. Dusk was upon them. She sighed as she stopped and looked at the red roses.
"I'll miss you all too," Diana told them. "You may be plants but you're apart of this place that I call home. It won't be the same seeing you somewhere else. Even if you are in a beautiful place." Diana was so occupied in her misfortune that she didn't notice Bizar coming up behind her. Bizar was quiet and quick in his movements. Bizar grabbed Diana from around her waist tightly. Diana struggled but to no avail. She tried to yell but Bizar covered her mouth. Bizar squeezed her so tightly that Diana passed out.
Diana awoke in a dark, dingy, old jail cell. She got up and walked over to jail cell's bars. They were rusty and old like the rest of the place and she was in a row of empty jail cells. She banged on them, shook them and tried to pushing and pulling on them. Nothing worked.
"Hello," Diana said. "Is anyone here?" Her voice echoed now the hall. She got no response. "Hello! Can anyone hear me!?" Diana turned away from the bars. She then heard a noise of footsteps. She tried to see through the bars and see who was coming. The person came up in front of the cell. He had pale white skin, black eyes, and black hair. He also had a plate of food with him. He dropped it on the ground in her cell.
"Princess eat," the man said in a zombie-like voice. "Food good."
"Who are you?" Diana demanded. "Why did you bring me here?"
"Me Bizar," the zombie-man said. "You captive. You eat." He pointed to the food. "Me go to master." He then walked away. Diana looked down at the food. It was on an old, rusted silver tray. It was moldy bread, watery soup and a cup half full of water. Her face shriveled up as she sat down.
"I'd sooner starve," Diana muttered to herself. She then noticed her crown was missing. "Great. Just great."
"Diana, Diana!" Hippolyta yelled. She had been looking for her daughter all morning and so had the other guards. She was no where on the grounds of the castle. Donna didn't even know where she was. Hippolyta and Donna were in one of the many main halls. "Where could she be?"
"Your majesty," a woman said from behind them. She turned to see her captain of the guard.
"Yes, Artemis. Have you found my daughter?" Hippolyta asked.
"No, and neither has anyone else," Artemis reported. "We believe she may have been kidnapped or that she ran away."
"Why would she run away?" Donna asked. "She was fine with being married off before. Why would she change her opinion now? And if she wanted to leave why not earlier?"
"That's what we were thinking," Artemis responded. "But we have no way of knowing who did it."
"Who did what?" King Hal had come down from his room and was in the hall with the other women. They turned to face him.
"When did you last see Diana?" Queen Hippolyta asked. Hal shrugged.
"Last night at dinner," Hal stated. "Haven't seen her since. Why?"
"She's missing," Donna informed him. Hal's face was filled with shock.
"What? When?" Hal asked.
"We don't know," Hippolyta told him. "We're trying to find her."
"Do we know where she went after dinner?" Hal asked.
"She went outside to the rose garden," Donna said. "When I didn't see her come in I assumed I had missed her come in."
"Well, then let's check there," Hal suggested. "Maybe something was left behind." They all went to the rose garden and looked around for something. Donna then found something buried.
"Over here! I found something!" Donna exclaimed. She unburied the thing and held it up to the others. It was a torn piece of fabric. "Do you know what it is?" Hal took it from her hands.
"I do," Hal said. "It's the flag of the Metropolis Barbarians."
"The Metropolis Barbarians?" Donna asked.
"They're a group of people in the northern part of Metropolis," Hippolyta began. "They want to over throw the king and establish their own sick sense of government."
"But why would they kidnap Diana?" Donna asked.
"Who knows," Artemis responded. "They do questionable things all the time. This could be apart of some sort of sick plan."
"Artemis, make ready my carriage," Hippolyta said. "We're going to need to head to Metropolis and seek out Luthor."
Come Soon: the appearance of the Dark Knight.
