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This Is my first story so please be nice. I would like to thank Jaden Shadow for being my beta.
P.S. this will be slash
Also this chapter has not been Betad so any mistakes made are all mine. As soon as it is ready i will re-upload it Thanks.
It was 6 months later as Hermione, Ron and I (while carrying Teddy) were flying over the forest as I sang to it.; that we received our first visitors from out side the forest. It was only thanks to the woods letting me know that someone had claimed sanctuary that we even knew someone had made it in.
I had decided last month that since teddy was only a baby and hadn't used any magic, it should be safe to wake him up. It wasn't like he could get away from me (he couldn't even crawl yet) and even if he did the forest would protect him.
So every morning as I sang to the forest making it stronger and stronger, I would take Teddy with me as I flew. He seemed to like it, and the forest seemed even more protective of us lately so nothing would actually hurt us. The forest had even gone so far as to bond most of itself to the castle that would be leaving this world, an thus forcing us to take it with us. The part that hadn't been bonded would stay behind and guard the castle that we left behind.
While we were on this world we had decided to go ahead and wake the regular animals leaving the magical ones asleep. There was plenty of greens for them to eat so we didn't have to feed them anything from our stocks.
While we did go for our morning flights we didn't just play around all day. We had already learned two new languages, we had also gotten good at weapon handling though Hermione preferred the bow and arrows. We had just finished our morning flight and Hermione and Ron were trying to see who would catch lunch first when the forest told us of our new guests.
It was the day of the battle, an while I had been ordered by my father to be by the kings side (to show were my allegiance lied). I hated myself for actually listening to him instead of following my heart. I had made sure to were a helmet that enclosed my whole head, that way I wouldn't be recognized.
It would soon be the end of the battle, Wallace had just seen the other lords turn away. And though most of his men continued to fight some had already run away, an now they had just sounded the retreat signal.
With that final call of retreat, the king turned to ride back to his castle only to stop and state over his shoulder "And that is how you put down a dog gentlemen. Go ahead and call our men back, those stupid Scots have gone into the Forbidden forest. And Robert you needn't come to the castle you may go home." I couldn't help but wish that this battle had ended differently as I watched the king and his men had back to their castle.
I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings as I headed home, and was ambushed by Wallace himself. In my surprise I didn't notice that my helmet had home off, thought the look of utter betrayal soon brought it to my attention.
As he scrambled away from me I noticed that he was wounded. Father would never forgive me for what I did next, and I didn't care. Though the king might never find out what I had done , my father would.
"I am sorry William, I wanted to fight beside you for our country, however with my father still being alive I cannot go against him. At least not without my people paying the consequences for my disobedience." Even as I spoke I approached him, I was going to save him, to hell with my father. I had already done as he had said and now it was time to do as I wished.
Once I finally had William on my horse with me right behind him I noticed someone quickly approaching us. It was that Irishman, Stephan, or something and behind him were some of the kings foot soldiers. As I quickly took off towards the forest I could only hope that none of those men had recognized me, though I could tell the Irishman had.
Praying with all my might that the forest before us would grant us sanctuary and not just kill us, I entered it.
While I looked for William's men the Irishman finally joined us, an though he didn't say a word to me I knew he wasn't pleased with me. It was only once he had found the men and I was being held at sword point that he spoke to me.
"Even though the almighty had told me you would be on the other side of the battle, I had hoped otherwise. Even if you did save William why shouldn't we just kill you were you stand?"
While I explained my situation to them I could tell they still weren't pleased, however they could understand the situation I was in. For I didn't participate in the " Prima Nocta" and I protected my people as much as I could from both my father and the king.
Only once Hamish spoke was I considered off limits, after all he was William's best friend and his second-in-command. "Enough we will let William decide his fate if he awakes, an if he doesn't we will kill him. We have enough to worry about right now."
With that said they all got busy attending to the wounded , while I just sat as close to William as I could and prayed to whatever gods were listening that he would survive. Not for my own selfish reasons, but because I knew Scotland herself needed him.
It was only when the scout that had been placed on the outside of the group got into a battle stance that everyone stopped whatever they were doing to listen for what the scout had heard.
"Rustleā¦.rustle.." it was probably some English men that were looking to get revenge for their fallen comrades. I knew I would be safe, after all it looked like I was a prisoner. But I didn't want to be safe, so I grabbed a sword and prepared to fight with everything I had.
As the bushes in front of us parted it seemed like the whole forest went quit, almost as if it was holding its breath. I myself was holding my breath in anticipation of who would be stepping out of the bushes.
Only when a man and a women along with the most beautiful being (that was holding a bundle) I had ever seen stepped out, did the men relax a little. "Wait did that beings bundle just move?" As the being moved it up to its shoulder while making shushing noises and humming to it did we realize that the bundle was a baby. At that point the men pointed their swords at the ground and relaxed even further.
All of a sudden the trio in front of us started arguing in another language. Well at least the winged being and the women did, the redhead seemed amused and when they finally turned to him he simply held up his hands in the I have no weapons in my hand signal "how odd."
When the winged being and the women came to an agreement. The being simply handed the baby to the redhead, an while the women took the bow from her back and readied an arrow, the redhead disappeared. It was only then that the being turned to us and smiled before saying something in a foreign language. We of course didn't understand a word he said, the women at this point was looking smug. He tried a different language after pondering s for a few minutes.
While most of us still didn't know what he was saying , Stephan did, and he pushed his way to the front . The being smiled while the women looked disappointed and upset. When Stephan was at the front the being spoke again only this time Stephan spoke back. By the end of the conversation they were both smiling. So when Stephan turned to face us we were all optimistic that he had good news for us.
"It seems that they wanted to know who we were and why we are in there forest requesting sanctuary" Stephan explained with a big smirk. "They have agreed to let us stay and they will even help us with our wounded. The Redhead has gone ahead to set up a camp for us. He also said that he would not be responsible for the deaths of anyone who wanders to far off, so he suggests to keep close to the camp until it is safe for us to leave the forest."
As everyone agreed to this I couldn't help my curiosity so I made my way to Stephan's side and asked "what were they arguing about and why did the women look so disappointed?"
When the answer came it wasn't from Stephan but from the being himself in perfect English. "She doesn't like that I am risking my safety with helping you. So we made a bet that at least one of you spoke a different language. She lost so I was allowed to help you."
We had reached the camp we would be staying at by the time he was done explaining, it was magnificent.
