Layla was a bit confused when her rider returned. She expected him to die. But when Moose returned, she pretended that she wasn't enjoying her grazing in the grass. Moose pulled himself down on the ground and walked over to the horse. Moose gave her a smile and rubbed her mane. Layla neighed at her rider, but Moose held his hand out her to try and silence her. Moose silently just took her reins and sat down on her saddle. Moose rode her across the mountain to the other side of the mountain where the now blinded dragon was sitting with the hostage prince. He looked up, seeing his wings resting almost over the mountain top. If he fell. Kevin would fall. Moose bit his lips. How would he have to go about this? Abraxas' senses seemed to be heightened with the loss of his vision. His smell is how he grabbed a hold of Kevin. And he was looking around not with his vision but with his hearing.
If Moose started climbing, slowly or quickly, Abraxas would probably hear his fingernails and hands brushing against the mountain's rocks. Abraxas would strike. Moose had to find a way to do this without killing himself and killing Kevin. Moose paced around on Layla, thinking and thinking for a way to get his prince away from the dragon. Moose sighed. Layla just stayed still, thinking about what to she was going to do when this is all over. Moose hopped off of the horse and looked around. What to do? He turned around and saw a huge bunch of bushes and trees. Moose looked over and thought for a moment.
"Layla. Layla, listen. Sit girl and listen." Moose said, moving his head down to her ear. "I need you to listen to me and listen to me closely."
Kevin was struggling hard against the grip of the dragon's tail. He was weak, tired and sick. The grip at which Abraxas was holding him was so painful that it might kill him this time. Kevin pulled and pulled, slamming his hands against the huge scaly tail.
"Please, please, let me go!" Kevin screamed. "Look just, what do you want?"
Abraxas turned over to where Kevin was. Kevin turned away, not wanting to see the bloody eyes. Abraxas pulled his talk and his hostage closer to him. Kevin pulled and pulled, but the dragon just sniffed at him. Before growling a bit. Kevin couldn't understand him. It was just growls. Kevin shook his head at him.
"I can't understand you." Kevin said to him.
The dragon growled and sniffed the air. He sniffed over, before motioning his head. Kevin looked over to where he was motioning towards. Kevin looked over to the woods. He saw there in between the trees and bushes, he saw the village and the kingdom. His village. His kingdom. Kevin turned back to Abraxas.
"My kingdom?" Kevin asked. "You… you want my kingdom?"
Abraxas growled a bit with a nod. That's what he nodded. The kingdom. He growled.
"Why?" Kevin asked. "Why do you want my kingdom?"
Abraxas shook his head and snorted at Kevin again. He sniffed up the air and motioned back over to the land. Kevin looked back over to his kingdom. The palace, the village, everything and everyone inside of it. Is that what he wanted? Kevin turned back over to Abraxas, his hand landing on the scaly tail.
"My people?" he asked this time. "Do you… do you want to eat my people?"
Abraxas, angry this time, screamed in Kevin's face. Kevin moved in on himself, trying to hide from Abraxas. Abraxas closed his mouth after screaming out his anger and snorted hot air at Kevin's face. He coughed to move it away and then looked over at his kingdom again. He raised his eyebrows, trying to understand a dragon. A dragon for Christ's sake. Kevin looked up at Abraxas again.
"The land?" he asked this time.
This time, Abraxas didn't scream. He just looked over at Kevin. Kevin raised his eyebrows. Was he right this time?
"The land?" he repeated. "You want the land that my kingdom is on? But why?"
Instead of trying to answer in growls, Abraxas tightened on his grip around Kevin's waist. Kevin screamed in pain, moving around and around and around and around to try and move away. Abraxas needed for that knight to hear his prince in danger. He would come and try to save him. And even though he couldn't see him, he could smell and hear him. He would kill that knight that took away his vision. And then take the land that he wanted. Abraxas moved to tightened the grip on his hostage and make him scream louder, when he heard yelling from below.
"Hey you overgrown lizard!" the voice that could only be recognized as Kevin's lover. Moose. No.
Abraxas turned his head, hearing the voice louder with his loss of hearing. Abraxas growled happily, his grip on Kevin slackening just a small bit. The knight was here. The knight was going to punish him. He was ready for the pain that he was going to inflict on this knight that dared almost fuck up his plan to take back the land that he wanted and needed. Abraxas moved over to the edge of the mountain. He heard the loud neigh of a horse all the way below and the loud hooves starting to move. The knight was trying to escape. In his haste, Abraxas dropped Kevin and flew down as fast he could. Following the sound of the horse hooves running and running and running as far as possible. Kevin fell down onto the top of the mountain, groaning in pain and exhaustion. It had been a while since he kidnapping, three and a half day to be precise.
Kevin moved up and crawled down over to the mountain's edge. He watched as Abraxas flew down and followed a black stallion horse. Kevin looked around in fear. What was he going to do now? Kevin forced himself up and he looked around to try and find a way off the mountain. He was weak to his knees. Probably getting terribly sick and getting terribly injured with each second he stayed here. Kevin looked around and try and find a way out and was brought to shock when he saw who he thought was escaping with the strange black stallion. Moose. His lover. Kevin moved to scream out in shock, but Moose pressed his hand against Kevin's mouth to silence him. Moose held onto Kevin's shoulders tightly, looking over and seeing the purple dragon following Layla. Moose turned back to the prince, slowly moving his hand away from Kevin's lips. Moose moved over and held Kevin's neck in his hands. Kevin smiled, holding Moose's wrists. His smile was wide. Kevin opened his mouth to speak, but Moose pressed a kiss to his open mouth. And Kevin immediately kissed back. The world around them was no longer there. It was just the brave knight and his beautiful prince floating in an bright abyss filled with love. The days hat they spent away... it was too long. Moose had missed his prince. Kevin had missed his knight. But now they were together again. Finally. A few days had been so long. Too long for them.
The two pulled away slowly, looking deep into each other's eyes. Moose's smile was wide. He was here. With Kevin, Moose looked him over. He was pale. His shirt completely gone and his bare chest, neck and back sporting herb covered wounds that could only have been caused by the huge purple dragon. Kevin looked like he was thinning just a bit and visibly shivering from the cold that the high mountain had. Moose moved into a whisper, not wanting to alert Abraxas. "Kevin… oh look at you." Moose said, rubbing Kevin's cheekbone. "You're so pale."
"I'm okay." Kevin said, not before throwing up all over the top of the mountain. The raw fish had finally decided to snake it's way up his throat. Moose immediately rushed over to him, pulling off his cloak and wrapping it around his shoulders to provide warmth and reassurance. The knight started holding his chest steady and whispering soothing words to his prince.
"Breath." he said. "You're okay, you're okay. Let it out. Let it all out. I'm here now."
Kevin held up his hand as soon as the raw fish and stomach acid finished fishing out of his mouth. He was shaking his head, the stale taste of the fish still there in his mouth. "I'm okay, I'm okay."
"I wish I had some water to give you." Moose said, pulling his prince up and holding up. "Crap… damn I-"
"Moose, look at me. I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay. Look at me Moose, I'm fine. I'm fine, I promise you." Kevin said, trying to reassure his lover. "I'm fine, I'm okay, I'm okay."
Moose pressed a kiss onto Kevin's lips again. "I got you. I got you now. I got you now. You're safe now. You're safe with me. C-Come love, we're going to get you out of here."
"But… but… but Abraxas. And that horse." Kevin tried.
"It was a diversion that I made." Moose explained, whispering and trying to calm his lover down as best as he could. "I made a decoy out of twigs, mud, leaves and tree bark. Abraxas won't notice that it's me for a while. But we need to go now."
Moose went into the back that he had brought up with him. He pulled out another spool of rope that he had brought with him. He took Kevin's hand lightly, rubbing him together. He tied their waists together. Moose tied the rest of the rope to his spear and dug it hard into the mountain. Moose pulled Kevin closer to him by the waist and tested the strength of the rope and the spear it was attached to. He wrapped the rope in a certain way so that it was tighter and it would slowly lower.
"Moose, what are you-" Kevin whispered, as Moose pulled him tightly close in a bridal carry.
"It's okay." Moose whispered. "No matter what happens, please don't scream. Abraxas will hear us… and if he does I don't know if I can protect you properly. Abraxas can't see us anymore, but he can hear us. Okay? So please… make sure that your voice is lowered, or don't say anything at all."
Kevin nodded. Moose held Kevin close and moved over to the edge of the mountain. He took a deep breath, moving over and jumping off of the top. Kevin bit Moose's armored shoulder as they ascended down a bit. The two stopped as the spear was pulled with the rope. But with it planted deeply in the mountain's rock, so the two were a bit safe. Kevin held on to Moose for dear life. Moose looked up at the rope and slowly started to move the rope in his hands downwards and downwards. Kevin looked down as Moose started to bring him downwards, more towards the ground.
Abraxas listened along, hearing the fast hooves of the horse that was riding along in the woods. Abraxas floated and floated around in the trees, moving to try and catch this damned knight. Abraxas heard the hooves to starting to get louder near him. Abraxas unfurled his claws and then grabbed the rider. Abraxas smiled, ready to smell blood and hear the bones start to crack. But he didn't. Abraxas flew in the air, staying where he was. He brought the body in his claws over to his nose and smelled it. Grass, dirt and old oak. No. This wasn't real. That wasn't the knight. It was a diversion. Abraxas roared in anger, slamming the decoy onto the ground and taking flight back to the mountain.
Moose had slowly brought Kevin down enough from the top of the mountain. Kevin was silent the entire time, rubbing his lip together and holding closely to Moose's chest. Moose slowly brought the rope down so that he could reach the ground. His eyes kept flickering over to his lover. He was curled up in his arms. He was pale. Moose was going to feed him immediately as soon as they met up with Layla. Moose held onto the rope in his hand tightly and looked down to see how much farther her had to go until Kevin was safe. Kevin moved himself up from in between Moose's neck and looked at him.
"What is it?" he whispered as quietly as he could with a scratchy throat with the fresh taste of stale fish in it.
"I'm just checking how farther down we have to go." Moose whispered back, rubbing Kevin's bare back from underneath his cloak. "Don't be scared."
"I'm not scared." Kevin stated in his whispered, holding his head up high. Moose chuckled.
"Your upper lip twitches adorably when you're scared. I know because you did the same thing when he first met."
"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't."
Moose chuckled softly. He leaned forward, still having a good grip on Kevin and the rope in his hand, and pressed a kiss to his lips. Kevin kissed back, rubbing Moose's popping out collarbone. Moose pulled away and slowly started to lower them down again. Just as he did, there was a loud boom and a shift in the mountain. Moose held onto Kevin tighter and the rope that was bringing them down. Kevin pulled himself up, looking around in fear. The mountain had been hit and was now starting to crumble.
Abraxas.
Moose immediately started to lower them down faster and faster. There was another boom and Moose lost him hand on the rope bringing them down as the mountain started to crumble from the bottom. He grabbed Kevin, holding both of his legs now as they started to fall down a bit. Kevin screamed, holding onto the knight for dear life. The spear that was holding their rope, was still firmly planted in the mountain, stopping their freefall to death. The rope pulled hard on the two, forcing Moose to let go of Kevin. The two were held by the ropes Moose tied on their waists. Moose looked down at his lover, he looked shaken. But okay. Thank God. Moose forced himself up and he grabbed the sword from it's sheath. He moved to cut himself free, but there was another boom. The mountain moved again. Kevin screamed in shock as the mountain moved again and almost crumbled. It almost fell over and completely crumbled to dust, but the mountain landed right in between two large trees. Leaving he knight and the prince hanging.
Kevin was moving from side to side, the rope holding onto him tightly with no chance giving out. Moose growled as the rope moved inside of his armor and was now digging into his skin. He gripped the sword high.
"Kevin!" he yelled out. "Are you o-ARRGGHH!"
Moose was unable to finish his sentence as Abraxas swooped in and grabbed the knight with his tail. The sword falling from his hand. The rope around his waist unraveled and Kevin started to fall even farther. Abraxas held onto Moose tightly, growling in his face. Moose squirmed to break free, seeing Kevin fall like tha. Kevin moved, grabbing onto the rope with his hands and planting his feet on the mountain rock that was now above him. He looked up and saw his father's sword falling down towards him. Kevin reached out and grabbed it, before falling down again and hanging from the rope. Kevin needed to find Moose. He needed to rescue him. If Moose died now, Kevin would never forgive himself. A part of himself would die along with Moose. Kevin needed to save him. No. He knew that he needed to save him, just as he heard his lover's pained scream.
Kevin swung him from side to side until he made his feet press up against the mountain. The rope burned his hands a bit as he started to climb, but Kevin was desperate in his sick state to get to his lover and save him from disaster. Kevin forced his weak body to start moving and he climbed up and up to follow Abraxas.
Moose yelled out in the grip of the vicious dragon. He moved and move in an attempt to break free. Abraxas pulled Moose to his still working nose and sniffed him. He smelled like silver armor and sweat. This… this was the knight. Abraxas roared in his face, squeezing him tighter. Moose struggled more, his hands were pinned beside him and he was unable to try and punch and hit the beast. The knight starting turning purple, air running out from his lungs. Kevin started to climb a bit faster, reaching the side of the mountain that was now the top. Kevin untied the rope from his waist, running as fast as he could to get to Moose. The mountain was unstable and it was due to collapse any minute. Kevin ran over to the dragon that was in the middle of the air. Kevin jumped, sword held up and he slammed it into the dragon's back.
Abraxas screamed, letting go of Moose. Moose fell down onto the falling mountain. Abraxas turned and turned. With his vision gone, he was unable to see who he attacker was or grab him. And the smell of his own blood was overpowering the smell of his attacker. Abraxas spun and spun while flying. Moose got up immediately, seeing his love in danger. Kevin yanked out the sword from Abraxas back and moved over to one of the wings. Kevin raised the blade and slice with all of his might. The wing fell off. Abraxas screamed in pain and shock, unable to keep his balance and started to fall again. Kevin fell off of him.
Moose took into a sprint, trying to reach Kevin in time. He jumped off of the side mountain and held out his hands. He grabbed Kevin in a bridal hold as they fell to the ground. Moose thought that he would land on the floor and that Kevin would be safe, but when he landed he landed on something familiar. Layla. She trotted, trying to find balance with her rider and his guest.
"Layla!" Moose cried, rubbing her mane. "Good girl. Good girl."