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"Edvard, Help!" I screamed as the men pulled me away from Edvard's unconscious body and shoved me into a small, cramped cage that was in the back of a wagon.
"Dust her and Get her away from here." Robin said to Karl. Karl nodded and pulled out a satchel from his side and blew a weird pink dust in my face. I coughed several times and sneezed.
"What the…" I started off angry but then grew very tired. I felt really dizzy and held on to the bars of my claustrophobic prison for stability. I started to sway but then I just fell asleep, just like that.
"Take her away!" Robin yelled from the back of the wagon, standing next to Karl and Edvard. The wagon started outbound toward one of the many trading markets, hoping to get a pretty penny for a pretty girl.
"Is she gone?" A muffled voice said, coming from the ground.
"Yes, she's gone." Edvard rose from the ground, rubbing where Karl had hit him.
"Karl, you didn't have to hit me that hard."
"I had to make it believable didn't I?"
"Never mind that; Welcome back brother!" Robin wrapped his arms around Edvard and patted his back, Edvard returned the same gesture.
"It's good to be back."
Robin pulled away from Edvard and Karl patted Edvard gently on the back. "So, where's the Red's Ruby?"
"I-I...I lost it."
"You What!!" The brothers yelled at their younger brother.
"Calm Down. I had it, but then the girl had something to do with the ruby and I can't find it."
"How can you want us to be calm! Everything we've worked for has been diminished to almost nothing because of a stupid girl who's now making her way to the market!"
"Robin, we'll fix it like we always do."
"No little brother, you will fix this. It was you who got caught, and it was you who lost the ruby, so it will be you who shall retrieve it! Don't you agree…sister?" The oracle stood up from her chair.
"Christine you can stop the act."
"Yes, I have to say that I do agree with them. It's your mess little brother; clean it up. But let's enjoy the return of our beloved sibling and get some rest." Edvard hadn't noticed that the gypsies that his family traveled with had long since been asleep. His two older brothers went off into the woods and left the two youngest siblings together.
"Edvard, you must know that I wasn't putting on an act when I did those readings. I told you both the truth, I have no reason to lie."
"I know Christine. I know. I'm just worried if Melissa will ever forgive me."
"You mustn't worry so much about her. Now c'mon, lay down. Rest."
Edvard lay down in front of the fire and his body absorbed its warmth while Melissa lay asleep, freezing, in a cage on her way to her unknown fate.
The next morning came with a bang. I could feel the bumps on the road start to shake the wagon a bit, but then it started getting very bumpy. My eyes shot open when I heard the 'crunch' that came from underneath the wagon. I may not know about wagons but I do know that that noise was not good. The wagon tipped over to the side and the cage fell over the side. I screamed as the cage that held me prisoner tumbled down what seemed like a never ending hill. I hit my head so many times falling down that hill, in a cage, that I'm not quite sure which blow was the one that knocked me out. (I woke her up just to make her go to sleep again!)
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Quiet day He thought. He was trailing down the mountain, getting far away from Snow White Memorial Prison as he could. He slung his sack across his shoulder He came upon a wreck site. A single horse was loose, galloping freely. "Whoa boy, whoa." The man grabbed hold of the horses' reins. He looked over the crash site and saw a cage, but something was different about this cage. There was girl inside this cage. He brought the horse over with him to see if the girl was alright. "Hey…Hey girl. Wake up!"
I could faintly hear a man's voice; it was rough yet so smooth that you could melt just listening to it. "Hey…hey girl. Wake up!" My eyes shot open and I stared at the man in front of me. He was wearing a leather jacket, a short sleeved black tee and trousers.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, just peachy." I started pulling at the bars, trying to get out of this stupid cage.
"Why are you in there?"
"Stupid…Gypsies! Edvard flips a table and they knock him out and stick me in this fucking cage!"
"Ok calm down, let's see here. Where's the lock?"
"Does like I know! I'm the one who's stuck in here. They threw some pink stuff at me and I've been asleep for god knows how long. Not to mention I don't like small spaces!"
"Found it!" The man looked at the lock, "Oh this'll be easy." He set down his pack and pulled out a small kit. I started calming down. He took two small tools and stuck them in the lock and started fiddling with it. "So…What's your name? I'm Fang."
"Fang?"
"No that's my name, what's yours?"
"Ha-ha, very funny. My name's Melissa."
Fang bit his lip and finally. 'Click' the lock fell off the cage and that side opened up. I crawled out, gratefully. "Thank you!"
"You're welcome, so you wanna tell me how you got in there?"
"Me and this guy, Edvard, we were staying the night with this Gypsy caravan or whatever you call it and it just hit the fan after that. They knocked him out and shoved me into that thing."
"Well, nice knowing yah." Fang turned and started walking off with the horse.
"Hey! Wait! What are you just gonna leave me here?"
Fang turned back around to face me. "Look, sounds like you've gotten yourself in a lot of trouble and trouble is the last thing I need right now."
"I'm not trouble! I swear! I-I just want to go home! I'm not even supposed to be here!" I turned around and started crying, I felt like such a pansy. I felt a hand touch my shoulder and stay there.
"Where's home?" Fang asked.
I started wiping my tears up. "New York, but the mirrors broken. Now I haven't the slightest idea how to get home."
"If there's one mirror there's bound to be another." Fang said in a comforting tone.
I turned to look at him, He smiled. I returned the smile. We started walking, Fang leading the way.
"So what's your story?"
"Uh…I just got outta Snow White Memorial. I mean I literally just got out."
"What's Snow White Memorial?"
"You're kidding right? Snow White Memorial Prison, you've never heard of it?"
"Can't say have. So what got you sent there for?"
"False accusations of Murder."
"Murder?" I stopped walking and looked at looked Fang over a little more closely. He was about 5' 11" , tan, short black hair that was sorta spiked. And he had a tattoo on his neck of two puncture holes with blood coming out of them.
"Yeah, but I didn't do it. Look, it doesn't matter. I've changed, I've served my time and now I'm free."
"Yeah, but Murder?"
"I was set up, I didn't do it. I'd rather not talk about it."
"Sorry." I caught up with him, he seemed to tower over me.
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Edvard ran through the forest, stopping every now and then to smell the air. He was chasing Melissa's scent, it was near. 'She couldn't have gotten that far.' He ran off in one direction and leaped over several fallen branches. He stopped and smelt the air again; there was a new scent there, a male, approximately 24-25 years old, but it was with Melissa's scent. He was close.
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We kept walking but then my leg started to hurt, it was then that I noticed the steady flow of blood coming from my leg. I sat down on a boulder and pulled up my jeans leg. "Wait!" I yelled at Fang.
He stopped and saw the bloody pants leg, but he mostly started at the wound and freshly uncovered skin. He bit his lip and turned away. "Y-You're bleeding." He could feel his teeth sharpen just at the
"Yeah, no duh Sherlock."
"Is it bad?"
"No, not really. Is there a place where I can wash my leg off?"
"Yeah, this way. There should be a river or something over here." I groaned as I got up, there really wasn't that much pain, just a lot of blood. I followed Fang to river, it seemed to be going pretty fast. I leaned down to touch the water and I felt my footing slip, I grabbed onto Fang for support but that didn't turn out to be the best idea. He lost his footing and fell down along with me into the freezing water. I couldn't breathe the push of the water made it impossible for me to grab onto something or try to stop myself, I pushed myself up to the surface and gasped for air. "Fang?! Fang!" I saw a black figure immerge from the water beside me. The sound of the water roared.
"Do you hear that?!" He yelled over the sound of the water.
"Yeah, what is it?!" The water got oddly calm in front of us. Then it just disappeared.
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