Chapter 6: The Last of Our Love
Okay I know this is REALY late…. I've been grounded for the last two months and finally got a chance to sneak on and work on the story… well im stalling now…here it goes!
He grabbed my arm and spun me around, slamming me into a tree. He held down my other arm too and made sure he had a hold of me before he started talking. "Who are you and why were you in MY house? Where did you get those clothes?" if I spoke he would surely know it was me under my new red hair and the black streaks of sharpie running down my face.
If I talk he'll know it's me and turn me into Prince Gumball… I'll either have to spend the rest of my life in a dungeon or be executed for staying in Aaa and breaking the royal promise…
At the last second I thought of something. I lowered the sound of my voice to make it sound deeper and contrasting to the normal pitch of it.
"I'm….Ember…I came to your home because I needed to ask the vampire king if he could do a little favor for me…" I said in a shaky tone.
"Okay listen EMBER; I don't just go around helping every little person in a bit of trouble! I'm not a miracle worker! "
"Please…I only need one little favor done and then I'll never bother you again your majesty" I said trying to sound as polite as possible.
"Fine but I better not see you again afterwards!" he groaned in annoyance.
"Good…I actually need you to take me somewhere…"
"What? I'm not some taxi you can just get a ride from for free! What do I get in return?" he yelled.
"I'll give you…" Glob! I don't have anything valuable for him to have….
"Um… I'll give you valuable information!"
"No way! I don't need to know anything right now! If you really need a ride from someone then go to Fiona's the Adventuresses house. It's in the middle of the grasslands. Now leave or you'll regret it!" he spat at me.
"That's the thing….it's about Fiona…" I whispered trying to hold back tears from my tortured memory.
"What do you mean? What happened to her!"
"First you have to royal promise to do my side of the deal!" I said, trying to sound tough but failing in the process.
"Fine I Royal Promise" he said in frustration.
"Now tell me what happened!"
"Not until you take me somewhere!" I yelled back.
"Geez what's your problem? Fine…where do you need to go?"
"The Night o' Sphere. Now." I said confidently.
"Why are you going there? And why can't you take yourself?"
"I can't tell you why I'm going...I would go myself but…I don't know the way…"
"Fine…let's get going."
He turned away from me, releasing his tight grip on my wrists. I rubbed them, trying to get the angry red marks off of my arms.
He then hovered down to where his feet touched the ground.
"Get on." He said, impatience clearly showing on his face.
I hesitated for a moment but then climbed up onto his back. He was warmer than usual, probably because he had just returned from the fire kingdom.
He then took off into the sky in the direction of his home. The sky was the same as that one night, the wind blowing, and a full moon out.
Without realizing what I was doing a layer my face down on his back; it smelled sweet as strawberries. Instead of tensing up like I expected him to Marshal relaxed a little.
The cold wind started blowing harder and I shivered under its cool touch. Marshal Lee noticed it too and held me tighter. I almost started crying from the thought of leaving him and changed the subject in my mind to something else.
"So, what's in the Night o' Sphere?" Marshal asked, curiosity lingering in his voice.
"Nothing yet… I need to start a new life… I can't stay in Aaa anymore…" I said, my voice cracking in certain spots.
"Wow. You must have done something pret-ty bad to not be able to stay in all of Aaa" he laughed.
"Actually, … I don't even know what I did… Prince Gumball just asked me come to his castle one day and when I got there… he told me that all of the royals of Aaa had decided in a meeting that I could not stay in Aaa anymore… and here I am …" I stuttered.
He stopped for a second and looked back. "So you didn't do anything about it?"
"Well no I…." I was at a loss of words.
"We're going to Gumwads house right now." He said sternly, jerking back and changing directions.
"NO! WE CAN'T GO BACK!" I screamed.
"What? Why?" he said with a quizzical expression.
What do I do? What am I supposed to tell him?
"Uh…well….we just need to get to the Night o' Sphere okay?"
"No way! I want to see what the glob is wrong with Gumbutt!"
I started panicking. "If you don't take me to the Night o' Sphere ill jump!" I said as I looked down to the ground below. We must be over thirty feet high… I started wriggling myself off of his back, trying to hide my fear.
"You don't need to do that! I'll take you! Geez Ember you are seriously emotional for a…by the way what are you?" he said, the curious tone creeping back into his voice.
I can't tell him in human… he knows Fiona is the only human in Aaa… I got it!
"I'm a fish-person! Have you ever met Samuel Strong? I'm from his tribe!"
"I think I've met him before… if you're part of his tribe, then why aren't you with them right now and how come I don't see any gills on you?" he said, suddenly disbelieving me.
Stupid! Stupid Stupid Stupid! Why did you have to think of THAT species Fiona?
"Um…a…a.. wizard put a curse on me!" I stuttered. Yeah that sounds right… "He took my gills so now I can't breathe underwater!...and junk…" I Stammered.
" Oh. Well you have a pretty little life right now don't you?" he replied, his sarcasm unbelievably present.
"Yeah…I do." I took a deep breath and tried to calm down but this did almost nothing.
He took off once more, again in the direction of his tiny cottage. When we got to the entrance to the cave he set me down and immediately started speed- walking (Or should I say speed-floating) towards the door of his home. He flung it open and immediately flew into his kitchen to look for milk. I ran to the house but by the time I arrived he had already drawn a happy Phil face on his wall and thrown the bug milk on it. I rushed to his side as he started the chant.
"Maloso vobiscum et cum spiritum!"
After we simultaneously shouted the words a large doorway appeared where the face had been. You could see and feel the angry red fire blistering on the other side. What have I gotten myself into? I can't survive in there! I started sweating and breathing harder. Marshal heard me hyperventilating and looked over.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" he said trying to sound comforting but failing in the process.
"I'm sure. I can do this. I haven't come this far to back down now." My adventuress side showing.
"Whatever" he said and grabbed my hand, dragging me towards the portal.
"Hey! What are you doing?" I cried. My face started turning multiple shades of red and I could feel it.
"What does it look like? I'm taken you to the freaking Night o' Sphere Ember! What did you think I was doing? Kidnapping you?" he shouted in annoyance.
"Wha-Whatever…let's get going" I stuttered. I could feel how cold his hand was and it fit so perfectly with my own…
We stepped into the Night o' Sphere and the initial heat was blistering. I started panting and looked at Marshal only to end up with a gaping mouth and a head full of disbelief. When we came in he shivered a little. He has a sweater on for crying out loud! How can he stand this? It took a few seconds of arguing in my head to finally register the obvious thing I was missing. For Glob's sake Fiona! How could you forget that your best friend was a vampire? He's floating for Pete's sake! I face palmed myself and looked up to see the young vampire was watching and now he was laughing hysterically.
"Ha-ha! How-how's your little con-conversation over there going?" he laughed.
I started walking away in frustration and then he grabbed my arm.
"What do you want you jerk?" I yelled back only to see a shocked expression.
"It was just a joke! You seriously need to watch where you're walking Ember. You almost fell off of this cliff!" he snapped back eyeing the ground.
I quickly followed his gaze only to see that I was a mere three inches from falling into the dark abyss below. I gasped and fell back, right into Marshal Lee.
"Hey! Watch it!" he joked.
"It's not safe here… I need to get you somewhere closer to the ground…get on my back and we can start looking.
I stood up, dizzy from falling, and stumbled forward a little bit but stopped before I fell off the cliff. I quickly turned around only to have my worst fear at this moment.
The ground below me started shaking and eventually crumbled to small pieces, falling off of the cliff and down into the dark abyss, dragging me down with it. The last thing I saw was Marshal turning around to look at me with a horrified expression.
Yay! I finally finished this one! I hope you guys liked it! And yes..for those of you who thought Fiona would go to the Night o' Sphere you were correct! Here you win a cookie! *hands everyone cookies*Oh well even if you don't like it you should review please! The more reviews I get the faster I will update! For I feed off of your reviews. ಠ_ಠ any who please review and stay tuned! Goodnight!
p.s. I like batteries!
