I truged up the stairs with the food marmaduke had made me, i spent hours in that libary and what did i find? Nothing, uncle dosn't keep books about the forest only books about the type of trees that grow in it, which is pointless. I got to my room and grabbed a backpack shoving the food inside, i also grabbed some spare clothes such as shorts and tank tops, i grabbed my pen knife and was about to put it in the backpack when i notice the book on the desk, if i was going to find the cave and the pool i was going to have to rember what it looked like, i opened the knife and ran it down the page before pulling it out, folding it up and shoving it in the bag along with the knife lastly i took a torch and shoved that in there too, that should do.
It was getting late and i needed to be up early in the morning so i walked to the other side of the room and started to take off my tank top, it was half way off when i noticed somthing moving outside in the dark, i looked out my window and looked down below at dark shadows stalked out of the woods, instanly reconised it as the de noir's and leading at the front was robin and his farther, they were attacking the manor?
I stood frozen at my window with my top hanging around my neck, i watched as robin looked up at the tower, a smirk appearing on his face, instictivly i pulled my top on again properly as he pointed me out to his farther, i quickly grabbed my backpack as they all started to run towards the house, i ran out of my little door and sprinted down the tower stairs two at a time, just as i made it to the corridoor did i hear the shouts of men and glass smashing, i ran down the corridoor and into the kitchine locking the door behind me, marmaduke was already in there rushing around in his carrote pajamas, "marmaduke they're here" i said in a rush, "i know you need to go, now!"
He grabbed somthing from a cubord and threw it around me, it was a black cloak, i quickly pulled up the hood, "be carfull princess" marmerduke warned me, "you too" i nodded and as quickly as i could i ran through the herb gardern and out the little door, just as it closed i heard shouting inside the kitchine and the sound of bracking wood, i ran through the dark towards the woods, i felt the black cloak flying behind me and get a little tangled in the trees but i kept running, well untill some one tackled me to the forest floor.
"Let me go" i snarled and kicked my leg up conecting with somthing hard, there was a groan and i scrambled up off the ground but was pulled back as they grabbed my cloak and pulled me backwards on to the forest floor, a weight sat on top of me and their knee dug into my side where i had the wound, my body arch forward as i let out a loud bloddcurdeling scream as pain eruppted through me, "please get off" i cried as his knee jabbed into my side again, i could feel my eyes start to water, i squezzed them shut, "how about no" the voice whispered, the voice that i reconised, i opened my eyes to see robin.
"Robin, please" i begged the pain being like fire, but he just stayed thier looking down at me, "sorry princess this is nothing personal" he said his voice flat and he reached down to his belt where his knife is, my eyes widen as he pulls it out of his belt, "NOOO! LET ME GO! PLEASE! ROBIN!" i scream as i fight underneath him the tears now falling down my face, "i have to my farther will kill me if i dont" robin said guilt in his every word, i stop fighting and take a deep breath, "fine but know by killing me you murder everyone eles in the valley, their blood is on your hands" i said looking him dead in the eye before closing my eyelids and waiting for the pain, but it dosnt come.
I open my eyes to see robin looking down at me his face emotionless, "waiting for somthing?" i snarled sarcasticaly "i can't do this" he said looking away and rubbing a hand over his face, "good" i snapped and threw a punch into his chest, he grunted leaning forward and i punched him in the side of the head, he fell off of me and i stood up, "you deserved that" i mutter warpping the cloak around me, before starting to walk off again.
"Where are you going?" robin snapped grabbing my upper arm tight and pulling into him, "i'v got the moon pearls to find" i snap, "do you know where they are?" he asked "it depends on what side your on, you may be a de noir but your not a a murder, which is what you will be if you dont help me" i snap looking up at his face, it darkerns and suddenly he pushes me in to a tree and the shadows.
"Get off..." but robin places a hand over my mouth silencing me, "ROBIN!" a voice calls, "where is that idoit?" another says, "proberly day dreaming about the witch again" their footsteps start to fade and so do the voices, robin reluctantly removes his hand "you want me to go against my own family?" he whisper shouts at me, "no i want you to use your head and your heart and do what is right" i whisper back at him, he takes a deep breath and i can feel it hit my face before he says "fine, i'll help you but you owe me", i nod before he backs up and lets me start walking in a random direction, "so you day dream about me?" i ask not turning round to look at him, "shut up".
It's was only another hour untill the sun started to rise, both of us had been silent the whole time, i stop by a tree and take out off my backpack pulling out the folded bit of paper with the sketch on it, "this is where we need to go" i say passing it to him, he looks at it and shakes his head, "i know this place, i found it when i was little, not many others know about it, they cant be there, there is no way you can get in to the cave" he said handing me back the paper, "don't tell me bird boys never lernt to swim, is it that or do you just not like having baths?" i smirked at him, "shut up" robin umbled under his breath looking away, thats when i realised "you can't swim can you?" i held back a laugh, the fearsome bird boy was scared of water.
"so what a lot of people can't swim" he snapped walking in another direction instead of the one we had origanly been going in, "well maby round here but where im from almost everyone knows how to swim, especially me i use to work down my local pool as a lifeguard on saturdays for money" i panted trying to keep up with him, "one of the only things i was really good at, swimming" i mutter, "that and talking" robin smirked, "shut up". "So how do you actualy know the moon pearls are here and this isn't just some big waste of time" robin said raising an eye brow, "i saw the moon pearls being hidden" i shurgged atempting to keep up with his large strides, "what!" He looked at me like i was mad, "i was asleep and in the clearing when at first i saw the first moon princess isabel as a little girl when she first discovered the cave, then it was like time shifted and i saw her as a woman crying and clutching the pearls to her chest before diving in, then it shifted to the present and i saw me and you and...err so how long is it going to be before we get there" i said changing the subject and picking up my pace so i was walking infront of him, "er well about half the day" robin said his voice was clear that he knew somthing was up but he didn't ask and soon i was trailing behind him again as i followed him through the large dark forest.
