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Then someone did, ready to destroy the shield and slay the dragon...

Alice awoke one summer morning with Alfred at her side. He was fast asleep, hugging her closely, her back pressed against his chest. The princess wiggled free of her dragon's grip and sat up some. The sun was shining brightly through the window. The sunlight also made Alfred's hair shine she noticed for the millionth time. Alice made the same observation just about every morning that she woke up before him.

The princess laid down again, deciding there was no reason to leave. His arm was draped over her, and she stared at the ceiling. Unexciting, she was debating on watching her dragon sleep when there was a sudden jolt. Not any small thing, it shook the whole tower and caused both of them to fall on the hard floor.

"Oww..." Alice heard him whine.

"What was that?" She grumbled, sitting up as Alfred neared the window with a look of shock. When he didn't respond she asked again,"What was it?" Alice stood and neared him and the window.

Her eyes widened at the scene. Instead of the empty world she was so used to seeing outside their shield, there were men. Not just a couple, but at least a hundred, dressed in silver armor. Someone had come after all.

The men attacked the shield once again, causing the tower to shake. Alfred hugged her tightly to steady them both. The princess hugged him back, not wanting to face the men outside. The shaking stopped and he let her go reluctantly.

Alice looked back to the army outside, a couple more attacks and the shield would break. She'd be free. They'd be free. She looked back to Alfred. He was watching her sadly.

"They came for you." He smiled sorrowfully.

"I never thought that they would." Alice murmured, remembering all the times she had thought that she had seen something on the horizon. At some point she had just stopped fantasizing and pretending and accepted that no one was coming. Then when her dragon became her lover she didn't mind the idea of being there with him forever. Really, she didn't want to rescued anymore.

But she was. After years of being trapped someone had come and she didn't want to leave. That wasn't exactly true. She did want to leave the charred tree and the tower with the broken window and the horribly perfect bedroom. She didn't want to leave him. Alice looked at him.

His golden bed hair with that one piece that stuck up from his fringe. His worried gaze that looked so different from the usual one. His bright sky blue eyes. His wide smile and happy and loud personality. She was still desperately in love with him and she couldn't leave him after all this. He had rescued her.

"I'm not leaving you." She announced sternly.

"Why not?" He looked confused at her proclamation. They were sitting across from each other on the floor of her bedroom, waiting for the shaking to stop

"I love you." The princess retorted, like it was the most obvious thing ever.

"Yeah, but they're going to let you go home, and you can marry a prince or something better than me," He paused,"I'm just a poor cursed village kid, you deserve better. Someone who can take care of you and someone who deserves you." Alice blinked in shock, did he actually think that after all this time?

"I don't want to go home, it wasn't exactly the best place for me, ever. And don't think some prince is better than you," He frowned in disagreement. "I don't think you've ever met a prince, but I have and they are stuck-up, prissy, cocky, wankers. I'll be a prize to them, not a wife." She sighed and smiled,"You always are taking care of me, I believe we met because you saved me from a falling tree in a horrible thunderstorm. And you better not think you don't deserve me. If anything, it's I who doesn't deserve you."

He didn't look convinced but another quake interrupted their conversation. There was a loud crack. When the shaking stopped they returned to the window and saw a large noticeable crack in the shield.

"We should get dressed and meet them." Alice whispered, still watching the army.

"I'm going out as a dragon." This caused her to look at him.

"Why the hell would you do that?" She glared.

"In case something happens, I need to be able to protect you." Alfred retorted.

The princess looked to the ground then outside again. She huffed and nodded. He left her alone but she knew he hadn't gone far.

Alice decided, for formality, she might as well dress in the same golden dress she had woken up in so long ago. It's what she was meant to meet the outside world in anyway. It was far too frilly and restraining. The was another crack and quake while she was changing and she almost hit her head on the wardrobe. The princess returned to Alfred. He was watching out another window nervously.

One last quake, one last crack. Then it shattered. Almost like glass, men spilling into their peaceful tower that had been so empty for so long. The princess and the dragon climbed the spiral stairs for the last time. Leaving through that broken window to the last time.

The sunlight washing over the outside seemed different than before. Maybe a little more genuine. The window faced the far side, away from the men. But that didn't stop the men from rushing around the sides and seeing them.

Alice backed into Alfred, now much taller and much more threatening in his dragon form. He curled around her loosely, his tail shielding her directly from them. But there was no need to shield her, she wasn't the target.

It happened before she could even realize it. The arrows whizzed so close she could feel their movement in her skin. His blood splattered on the golden dress and her skin and she didn't even know.

Alice only realized when men started to pull her away. Asking if she was okay, but she wasn't. They had just shot her dragon. They asked a thousand other questions, the foreign voices buzzed in her ears, only managed to reach Alice in her hysterical state.

Where was her dragon?